Democratic dissension over spending priorities to push state budget talks past deadline
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that was created in 2020 but has twice been expanded, greatly enlarging the pool of eligible recipients.The program provides Medicaid-style benefits for immigrants 42 and older who are in the country without legal permission or who have green cards but haven’t completed a five-year waiting period, and therefore don’t qualify for the traditional insurance program for the poor.
Complicating matters, tax revenue flowing into state coffers has begun to slow from the record levels seen last year, putting pressure on Pritzker, House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch and Senate President Don Harmon to keep spending in check. “My expertise is in forecasting revenue, … and I’m pretty comfortable with that number,” Walker said.
“There’s ongoing discussions about increased reimbursement rates for Medicaid providers, for hospitals, for people, front-line workers who provide care for adults with developmental disabilities, making sure that we’re supporting those who care for the people in the greatest need in our state,” said Guzzardi, who also co-chairs the House Progressive Caucus.
State Sen. Omar Aquino, a Chicago Democrat who’s sponsoring a measure that would expand the health care program’s coverage to adults 19 and older, said the law creating the program gave Pritzker’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services authority to make decisions on how it should operate. State Sen. Elgie Sims of Chicago, the Senate Democrats’ budget point person, said Thursday afternoon that negotiations over how to address the roughly $880 million hole created by the immigrant health care program were “in a very good place,” though he declined to go into specifics.
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