Springfield- Those who rely on medical advocates, hospital officials, and medical insurance for medical insurance warns on Wednesdays the results that could be caused by the cuts of the Federal Medicide Funds Proposal.
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Carrie Chapman, a lawsuit and advocate of Legal Council for Health Justice, based in Chicago, said, “This is very much. “Medicaid is maintained or proceeded to the program we know.”
Chapman was one of almost 12 people speaking to the Illinois State Budget Committee on Wednesday, and he spoke to the Illinois Housing Budget Committee, which supervises human service spending, including Medicaid, a public health insurance program for about 3.4 million low -income people in Illinois.
In 1965, MEDICAID, along with Medicare, traditionally targeted low -income pregnant women, children, elderly, parents and disabled. In Illinois, the federal government pays about 51%of the individual’s treatment costs.
However, with the passage of AFODABLE CARE ACT in 2010, Medicaid’s qualifications have been expanded to include labor age adults with up to 138%income at the level of federal poverty. About 770,000 people of this category are guaranteed by Illinoi Medicaid, and the federal government pays 90%of the expansion group costs.
Currently, according to the Illinoi Health and Family Services Department, Medicaid pays about half of all children of Illinois and two -thirds of all nursing homes. Nearly 50%of Illinois with HIV apply to almost 80%of those who serve in Medicaid and Community Mental Health Center.
According to the state administrator office, Illinoi spent about $ 36.9 billion in Medicaid in the fiscal year, which ended until June 30. Lizzie Whitehorn, Director of Family Service, Illinois, said that about 62%of the total state spending is from the federal government.
The problem is that a budget resolution has recently passed through the Republican House of Republicans in Washington, which requires deep cuts for federal spending. Some of the resolutions require the US House of Representatives Energy and Commercial Commission, which has jurisdiction over Medicaid, to reduce $ 880 billion in the Federal Budget Definitity over the next decade.
Medicaid assumes that many people should include significant cuts of Medicaid in the scale of the scale, because they make up a large portion of all the programs supervised by the Energy and Commercial Commission.
Anna Moeller spokesman, D-Elgin, chairman of the hearing, said, “Medicaid is a significant part of the discretion they can access, so there is no way to reduce the federal budget without touching Medicaid.”
Whitehorn has reduced the interest rate without main insurance in half and reduced the amount of non -compensated treatments provided in Illinois due to the expansion of Medicaid according to Affordable Care Act and more than one third.
“Federal cuts will mean that we must limit service or eligibility,” she said. “And we have no money as a country to make up for the difference.”
AJ Wilhelmi, the president and CEO of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association, explained that it is “swept and shocking.” He said that it included converting federal Medicide spending into block subsidies to the state, setting a per capita limit for Medicaid benefits, and removing specific funding mechanisms known as supplier taxes to eliminate specific financing mechanisms used to withdraw federal matching funds to support additional federal hospitals.
“Do not make a mistake. There will be no hospital Medicaid program without a tax provider tax,” he said.
Last month, JB Pritzker Governor presented $ 55.2 billion in budget proposals to the Democratic Party’s control meeting in order to fund the government’s operations over the 2026 fiscal year, which began on July 1, but at the budget address he mentioned the uncertainty of various federal funds, which helps to pay many main operating costs, including Medicaid.
Bob Morgan, a spokesman for D-Deerfield, who works at the committee, said on Wednesday that the decision on the Federal Medicaid Fund in the future depends on the Republican’s controlled parliament. He urged GOP members of the General Assembly to use their influence to persuade three Republican Republicans in the US House of Representatives.
“So I came back to the minority of the minority of the minority of the minority spokesman and the minority people of the committee within a week and discussed with us about what we did to ensure that the US representatives, the US Senate and the president were our terrible, damaged, and life with all these committees, emails and texts.”
The Republican members of the panel suggested that the theme of the federal budget negotiations beyond the scope of the State Legislative Committee, and Wednesday hearings were about party politics rather than solving the state budget problem.
“I think this is performance,” said R-Morton’s William Hauter. “We do not know what will happen. There are many things we can’t control, and budget negotiations are underway at the national level.”
Moeller argued that the hearing was more than a stage show, and parliament pointed out that it faced the deadline on March 14 to pass the bill to update the federal spending authorities on March 14 or to face the federal government’s partial closure.
“This morning hearing is much more than a performance,” she said. “We will head to the budget cycle, budgeting process, and our budgeting process. What happens in Washington DC for the next few weeks will have a direct impact on the level of financing that we can use for all these important programs.”
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