Test costs, health care funding, student loan forgiveness, even immigration: What happens in Illinois and U.S. when COVID-19 emergency ends
WASHINGTON -- The declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency three years ago changed the lives of millions of Americans by offering increased health care coverage, beefed-up food assistance, and universal access to coronavirus vaccines and tests.
The governor's disaster proclamation also allowed for the activation of the State Emergency Operations Center, which brokered cooperation between the leaders of different state agencies in response to COVID-19. And it gave Pritzker the power to activate the Illinois National Guard and expedited the procurement process for items during the pandemic, including testing supplies, masks and even body bags.
Medicaid Medicaid enrollment ballooned during the pandemic, in part because the federal government prohibited states from removing people from the program during the public health emergency once they had enrolled. But that forgiveness plan -- which more than 26 million people have applied for -- is on pause, thrown into legal limbo while awaiting a ruling from the Supreme Court on arguments by conservatives that the Biden administration doesn't have the authority to usurp Congress and cancel consumer debt, which they say would harm the national budget and state agencies, and that the forgiveness wouldn't be applied to borrowers equally.
The end of the emergency may bolster the legal argument that the Title 42 restrictions should no longer be in place. The emergency restrictions fell under health regulations and have been criticized as a way to keep migrants from coming to the border, rather than to stop the spread of the virus.
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