House Republicans have been talking for months about potentially slashing Medicaid, but this week they unveiled, for the ...

The program reaches parts of American life well beyond the doctor's office or pharmacy counter, executives warn.

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

Gov. JB Pritzker's positioning of Illinois as a sanctuary state, a welcoming port for immigrants from across the globe, hit ...

House Republican efforts to reduce the cost of Medicaid don’t include provisions that would have cost Illinois billions.

Approximately 3.4 million Illinoisans rely on Medicaid as a lifeline to accessible, necessary health care. But to some ...

Thousands of Midwesterners obtained health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. A federal work ...

It’s crunch time in Springfield, with the deadline to pass the state budget for next fiscal year less than two weeks away. Lawmakers are working to hammer out a balanced spending plan amid federal ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State officials are on track to shut down a program at the end of June that provides publicly funded health care coverage to more than 30,000 non-U.S. citizens in Illinois, ...

Illinois’ program to offer insurance to noncitizen migrants helped hospitals reduce bad debt by nearly $1.5 million per ...

In Illinois, about 58% of adults on Medicaid are already working, according to KFF, a nonprofit organization focused on health policy. Most adults on Medicaid who do not hold jobs are not working ...