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Concerns Over Pilot Health Care Program
The Department of Healthcare and Family Services is wants to try out a new healthcare program for people with disabilities in suburban Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kankakee, Lake, and Will counties. The pilot program would switch people from Medicaid to managed care.

The transition is supposed to take about nine months but many opponents say it should take longer. Barbara Pritchard, with the citizen's group Campaign for Real Choice, relies on the use of a wheelchair. She worries the new program is more about saving money than providing people with the care they need.

Pritchard adds that people who will be affected by the managed care system have not had the opportunity to voice their concerns. State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora) agrees. She is sponsoring HB 5086 which would stop the pilot program. The bill also sets up a task force to investigate the effectiveness of the program.

(Illinois Radio Network)
02 19 10 by Newsroom
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