Healthy Illinois Plan

Access to affordable health care is a problem for many in our county, state and country. Lack of affordable health insurance is one of the biggest barriers to accessing health care. In particular, this affects small businesses and self-employed individuals who are unable to negotiate the more affordable premium rates of large employers. Due to the ever-rising costs, many small businesses cannot afford to offer health insurance to their employees. In some regions of our state, this is now affecting small municipalities.

An initiative called “The Healthy Illinois Plan” was proposed as a solution to rising healthcare costs. The Healthy Illinois Plan seeks to build a statewide coalition, a public-private partnership, to provide insurance to small businesses, self-employed and uninsured individuals.

Some FAQs about Healthy Illinois:
What is the goal of Healthy Illinois?

Has this been tried anywhere else?
(see: http://www.fchn.org/dirigohealth/ld1611_summary.asp )

Who’ll administer the plan? Government or private?

How is this different from KidCare and FamilyCare?

Is this mandatory?
For more information on the Healthy Illinois Plan go to : http://www.healthyillinoisplan.com/
To read the Healthy Illinois newsletter “The Pulse” go to : www.healthyillinoisplan.com/newsletter