Protect Our Care Illinois 2021 Priorities
- Protect Our Care Illinois 2021 Priorities (English)
- Protect Our Care Illinois 2021 Priorities (Spanish)
COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Recommendations
Illinois Health Care Affordability and Feasibility
Prescription Drug Affordability Campaign
- Prescription Drug Affordability Campaign sign on
- Watch the webinar: Addressing High Drug Spending – 101 for Advocates
- Prescription Drugs Don’t Work if People Can’t Afford Them fact sheet
- Illinois Rx Brief
- Illinois Affordability Brief
- Cook County Regional Brief
- Collar Counties Regional Brief
- Greater Illinois (All Other Counties) Brief
- Take action: Advocate to your legislators about prescription drug affordability
Public charge rule
Medicaid eligibility and renewal reform
Protect Our Care 2019 health care priorities
- Texas V. Azar fact sheet
- Medicaid Enrollment Policy Recommendations
- Marketplace Stabilization Priorities for 2019
- Stop Attacks to the Affordable Care Act! Trump-Backed Texas Lawsuit Would Devastate Illinoisans
Protect Our Care supported state legislation
- Protect Our Care Illinois Issue Brief Short-Term Health Plans
- Short-Term, Limited Duration Insurance Coverage Act (HB2624 SA 3)
- Do No Harm Healthcare Act (HB 4165 HA1)
Protect Our Care materials
- Understanding the efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act
- Protect Our Care Illinois sample social media messages
- Protect Our Care Illinois infographics
- Protect Our Care Illinois commit card (PDF)
ACA Information
- Comments to CMS: Reducing Regulatory Burdens Imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- The impact of the Affordable Care Act on the LGBT community
- ACA Fact Sheets by Congressional District
ACA and pre-existing conditions
- Pre-existing conditions in Illinois and STLD health plans
- Trump Administration attempts to reverse pre-existing condition protections, threatening Illinoisans’ care
ACA repeal fact sheets
- Cost Sharing Reductions – What They are And What’s at Stake RIGHT NOW
- ACA talking points for April 2017 recess
- Number of people with pre-existing conditions in Illinois, by congressional district
- TrumpCare: Less for More – An Analysis of the Impact of Repealing the Affordable Care Act on Illinois
- 1.2 Million Illinois Residents Would Lose Coverage in 2019 Under ACA Repeal
- Economic and Employment Consequences of Repealing Federal Health Reform in Illinois
- Helpful Rebuttals to Arguments for ACA Repeal or Medicaid Block Grants/Per Capita Caps
- ACA/Medicaid Expansion Talking Points for Meetings with Conservative Legislators in Illinois
Children and Medicaid
- Illinois services for children that rely on Medicaid: What is at risk?
- Illinois program/services for children significantly impacted by changes to Medicaid’s structure
- Medicaid provides vital health care and long-term economic benefits to children
- Illinois counties with school districts with 48% or more children covered by Medicaid/CHIP
Medicaid fact sheets
- By The Numbers: How Medicaid Strengthens Illinois
- Illinois programs/services for children significantly impacted by changes to Medicaid’s structure
- Medicaid Is a Powerful Lifeline for Seniors in Illinois
- Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicaid’s role for children with special health care needs
- Medicaid provides vital health care and improved economic security to women
- The AHCA dramatically cuts Medicaid putting kids, seniors, people with disabilities at risk
- Federal Medicaid Spending Caps Will Severely Restrict Illinois’ Ability to Address Its Mental Health Crisis and Opioid Epidemic
- Illinois: Sources of Children’s Coverage by Congressional District, 2015
- Medicaid Expansion Helps Working People in Illinois
- Illinois services for children that rely on Medicaid
- Work Requirements for Medicaid: Ineffective and Harmful
- House Republican Health Plan Shifts $370 Billion in Medicaid Costs to States
- Medicaid Helps Illinois’ Kids, Seniors, People with Disabilities, and Families
- Do No Harm: Protect Medicaid’s Current Structure
- Snapshot of Children’s Coverage: How Medicaid, CHIP, and the ACA Cover Children
Medicaid work requirements fact sheets
American Health Care Act fact sheets
- The American Health Care Act eliminates basic protections for people with pre-existing health conditions
- Talking points on the American Health Care Act (May 3, 2017)
- If you think that the American Health Care Act won’t affect your employer provided insurance: THINK AGAIN
- House Republican Health Plan Would Mean More Uninsured, Costlier Coverage in Illinois
- FamiliesUSA: Talking points on protecting the Affordable Care Act from repeal or changes
- FamiliesUSA: AHCA talking points
- Essential Health Benefits- Why they Matter
- The Problem with High-Risk Pools: Past Experience in Illinois
- Health Savings Accounts Only Work For The Wealthy and Healthy
Better Care Reconciliation Act
- Senate Health Care Bill Talking Points (As of June 29, 2017)
- Urban Institute: State-by-State Coverage and Government Spending Implications of the Better Care Reconciliation Act and State Data on Children/Adults and Age/Ethnicity
- CAP: Coverage Losses by State for the Senate Health Care Repeal Bill
- Premiums under the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act
- The Impact of the Senate Health Care Bill on Veterans: State-by-State Breakdown