Medicaid funding cuts could hit Illinois hard! In a recent full-length article for Crain’s Chicago Business, Health & Medicine’s Policy Director Wesley Epplin warns, “Increasingly, people who were covered by Medicaid would go without preventive care, end up sicker and in the emergency departments, where the cost of care is more expensive. If Medicaid is cut, people will lose their health care access. Their health will suffer, and many will die early, unjustly, preventably.”

Read the full article to understand the real stakes for Illinois.