Looming cuts to Medicaid are much greater, with the federal Congressional Budget Office projecting this week that some 8.6 ...

That funding was allocated to 77 community-based organizations that provide direct services to thousands of people across Illinois for behavioral health crisis response and substance use ...

Most nursing homes rely on Medicaid for around 75% of their budget, according to Ron Nunziato, an official from the trade association Health Care Council of Illinois. At Clinton Manor, 90% of its ...

That's the biggest one-year reduction in death since the opioid crisis began in the 1990s. "The reduction in overdose deaths ...

Illinois in State Fiscal Year 2024 received over $20 billion from the federal government for Medicaid spending across the state. That amount made up about 62% of the total funding for Medicaid ...

Medicaid, or as it’s called in California, Medi-Cal, is the fastest growing entitlement in the country, with about 80 million Americans enrolled. And in this year of Trump/DOGE cuts to spending ...

(WREX) — Medicaid is marking its 60th anniversary this month, part of the Great Society programs put in place by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Illinois ... critical funding for Medicaid is ...

A QEV Analytics poll taken in March 2017 asked Illinois registered voters: “Regardless of your personal opinion of abortion, do you favor or oppose allowing state government funding of abortion?

suggested he supports reducing federal Medicaid funding for the millions of people who gained access to the program through the Affordable Care Act. The US government pays for a larger share of ...