Hospitals across Illinois are providing $1.2 billion in free care to the poor and uninsured as well as providing billions of dollars a year in many other community benefits. These proposals would threaten the survival of many hospitals, which are barely hanging by a financial thread. |
It's not possible to solve the problem of the uninsured simply by imposing requirements on hospitals. |
These are among the most dangerous legislative proposals that I have ever seen. It is clear that the people who drafted this legislation really had no idea about how the health care financing system operates. |