Debate Continues Over Success Of Health Coverage Signups In Illinois
From the Springfield State Journal-Register
The Get Covered Illinois campaign “successfully extended health coverage to over half-a-million people,” according to the state’s first annual report on the effort to carry out key parts of the Affordable Care Act.
The federal health care law “is making a real difference in the lives of Illinois residents,” Gov. Pat Quinn wrote in the report, issued by his administration last week.
Nowhere in the report, however, does it say how many of the 1.3 million uninsured Illinois adults eligible for coverage through the law were among the more than 600,000 people statewide who got coverage.
At most, it appears that efforts by the administrations of Quinn and President Barack Obama have covered one-quarter of the state’s eligible uninsured working-age adults — or more than 315,000 people — according to an analysis by the right-leaning Illinois Policy Institute.
By that measure, the law “is failing to deliver” in Illinois and is unlikely to make much more progress in the second enrollment period, scheduled for Nov. 15 through Feb. 15, said Naomi Lopez Bauman, the institute’s director of health policy.
The Get Covered Illinois annual report, available at bit.ly/GCIreport, notes that more than 217,000 people enrolled in private insurance through Illinois’ federally operated health insurance exchange by the March 31 deadline.
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From the Springfield State Journal-Register
The Get Covered Illinois campaign “successfully extended health coverage to over half-a-million people,” according to the state’s first annual report on the effort to carry out key parts of the Affordable Care Act.
The federal health care law “is making a real difference in the lives of Illinois residents,” Gov. Pat Quinn wrote in the report, issued by his administration last week.
Nowhere in the report, however, does it say how many of the 1.3 million uninsured Illinois adults eligible for coverage through the law were among the more than 600,000 people statewide who got coverage.
At most, it appears that efforts by the administrations of Quinn and President Barack Obama have covered one-quarter of the state’s eligible uninsured working-age adults — or more than 315,000 people — according to an analysis by the right-leaning Illinois Policy Institute.
By that measure, the law “is failing to deliver” in Illinois and is unlikely to make much more progress in the second enrollment period, scheduled for Nov. 15 through Feb. 15, said Naomi Lopez Bauman, the institute’s director of health policy.
The Get Covered Illinois annual report, available at bit.ly/GCIreport, notes that more than 217,000 people enrolled in private insurance through Illinois’ federally operated health insurance exchange by the March 31 deadline.
Read more in our daily News Update...