About 3.7 million people are at immediate risk of losing health coverage should the federal government cut funding for Medicaid expansions, as some allies of President-elect Donald Trump have proposed.
    • BlueLineBae@midwest.socialEnglish
      8·
      20 days ago

      Definitely didn’t expect Illinois to be on that list. Hopefully Pritzker will do something about it? Only time will tell.

    • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world
      4·
      20 days ago

      Money’s gotta come from somewhere. At least with a trigger law Illinois won’t be taking on more debt while they figure out what to do.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        41·
        20 days ago

        I wonder if that trigger was from before Illinois got that sweet, sweet legalized cannabis revenue. I know that IL finances were crazy bad back then, and I haven’t heard much about them being crazy bad in a few years now.