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| AN ACT concerning health care.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Health Care
Justice Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Sections 1, 5, 15, 20, and 25 as follows: | 6 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/1)
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| Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Health | 8 |
| Care
Justice Implementation Act of 2010 .
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| (Source: P.A. 93-973, eff. 8-20-04.) | 10 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/5)
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| Sec. 5. Legislative findings. The General Assembly | 12 |
| recognizes that the
U.S. census reported that on any given day | 13 |
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estimated
1,800,000 Illinoisans are without health | 14 |
| insurance ,
and according to a March 2003 Robert Wood Johnson | 15 |
| study, nearly 30% of the
non-elderly Illinois population | 16 |
| (3,122,000) during all or a large part of 2001 or 2002 were
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| uninsured;
a growing number of
Illinoisans are under-insured, | 18 |
| the consumer's share of the cost of health
insurance is | 19 |
| growing, coverage in benefit packages is decreasing, and
record | 20 |
| numbers of consumer complaints are lodged against managed care
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| companies regarding access to necessary health care services . | 22 |
| With new federal health care reform legislation the number of |
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| uninsured Illinoisans will decrease dramatically. However, | 2 |
| there will still be tens of thousands of uninsured Illinoisans. | 3 |
| The
General Assembly believes that the State must work in | 4 |
| cooperation with the federal government to implement these | 5 |
| federal reforms effectively and in a thoughtful and expedited | 6 |
| manner to assure access to
quality health care for all | 7 |
| residents of Illinois, and at the same time, the
State must | 8 |
| contain health care costs while maintaining and improving the
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| quality of health care .
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| (Source: P.A. 93-973, eff. 8-20-04.) | 11 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/15)
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| Sec. 15. Health Care Justice Implementation Act of 2010 | 13 |
| care access plan. On or before September 1, 2010 the Health | 14 |
| Care Justice Implementation Task Force shall be created to | 15 |
| accomplish, subject to appropriation, the following mission: | 16 |
| (1) Monitor the implementation of federal reforms and | 17 |
| make recommendations. The Task Force shall monitor the | 18 |
| implementation of federal reforms and make recommendations | 19 |
| to the executive and legislative branches of Illinois | 20 |
| government concerning implementation. The Task Force shall | 21 |
| file with the General Assembly a recommendation report by | 22 |
| January 1st of every year as it pertains to those reforms | 23 |
| that will need to be implemented in that year. In addition, | 24 |
| a quarterly assessment shall be developed as it pertains to | 25 |
| how State government's process of implementing these |
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| federal reforms is progressing. | 2 |
| (2) Additional recommendations regarding reforms. The | 3 |
| Task Force shall issue a report on March 1, 2012 regarding | 4 |
| additional reforms needed to fully comply with Section 10 | 5 |
| of this Act. | 6 |
| (3) Assessment of current programs. The Task Force | 7 |
| shall issue recommendations and positions on a wide range | 8 |
| of issues, as seen fit by Task Force members, as it | 9 |
| pertains to existing programs and needed changes to these | 10 |
| programs. July 1, 2007, the
State of
Illinois is strongly | 11 |
| encouraged to implement a health care access plan that does | 12 |
| the
following:
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| (1) provides access to a full range of preventive, | 14 |
| acute, and
long-term health care services;
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| (2) maintains and improves the quality of health care | 16 |
| services offered
to Illinois residents;
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| (3) provides portability of coverage, regardless of | 18 |
| employment status;
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| (4) provides core benefits for all Illinois residents;
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| (5) encourages regional and local consumer | 21 |
| participation;
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| (6) contains cost-containment measures;
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| (7) provides a mechanism for reviewing and | 24 |
| implementing multiple
approaches to preventive medicine | 25 |
| based on new technologies; and
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| (8) promotes affordable coverage options for the small |
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| business market.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-973, eff. 8-20-04.) | 3 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/20)
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| Sec. 20. Adequate Health Care Justice Implementation Task | 5 |
| Force.
There is created a an Adequate Health Care Justice | 6 |
| Implementation Task Force. The Task Force
shall consist of 29 | 7 |
| voting members appointed as follows: 5 shall be appointed by | 8 |
| the Governor; 6 shall be appointed by the President of the | 9 |
| Senate,
6 shall be appointed by the Minority Leader of the | 10 |
| Senate, 6 shall be
appointed by the Speaker of the House of | 11 |
| Representatives, and 6 shall be
appointed by the Minority | 12 |
| Leader of the House of Representatives. The Task Force shall | 13 |
| have a chairman and a vice-chairman who
shall be elected by the | 14 |
| voting members at the first meeting
of the Task Force. The | 15 |
| Director of Public
Health or his or her designee, the Director | 16 |
| of Aging or his or
her designee, the Director of Healthcare and | 17 |
| Family Services or his or her
designee, the Director of | 18 |
| Insurance or his or her designee, and
the Secretary of Human | 19 |
| Services or his or her designee shall represent their | 20 |
| respective departments and shall be invited to attend Task | 21 |
| Force meetings, but shall not be members of the Task Force. The | 22 |
| members of the Task Force shall be appointed
within 60 30 days | 23 |
| after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th | 24 |
| General Assembly and hold its first meeting within 30 days | 25 |
| thereafter . The departments of State
government represented on
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| the Task Force shall work cooperatively to provide | 2 |
| administrative
support for the Task Force; the Department of | 3 |
| Public Health shall be the
primary agency in providing that | 4 |
| administrative support.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.) | 6 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/25)
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| Sec. 25. Public hearings.
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| (a) The Task Force shall seek public
input on all 3 of its | 9 |
| mission goals the development of the health care access plan by | 10 |
| holding 4 public hearings each year throughout the State
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| public hearing in each Illinois congressional district | 12 |
| starting no later than January 1, 2005 and
ending on November | 13 |
| 30, 2005 . Each State Representative and State Senator
located | 14 |
| in
each such congressional district shall be invited to | 15 |
| participate in
each the hearing in that district
and help to | 16 |
| gather input from interested parties. A web site for the Task | 17 |
| Force shall be developed and
linked to
the Governor's home page | 18 |
| for input to be
provided and to keep the public informed. The | 19 |
| Task Force's web site shall be
specifically highlighted and | 20 |
| have independent pages reporting all activities
and linkages
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| for people to access. Minutes from all of the Task Force's | 22 |
| meetings shall be
available on
the web site, and a hard copy of | 23 |
| this information shall also be made available
for those
persons | 24 |
| without access to the Task Force's web site.
The Task Force may | 25 |
| also consult with
health care providers, health care consumers, |
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| hospitals, labor unions, businesses, insurers, pharmaceutical | 2 |
| manufacturers, and other appropriate
individuals and | 3 |
| organizations to assist in the development of the
health care | 4 |
| access plan.
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| (b) Not later than January 1, 2011 September 1, 2004 , the | 6 |
| Illinois Department of Public
Health,
subject to appropriation | 7 |
| or the availability of other funds for such purposes
and using | 8 |
| a public request for proposals process, shall
contract with an
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| independent research entity experienced in assessing the | 10 |
| implementation of health care reforms,
health care financing, | 11 |
| and health care delivery models. Upon the request of at
least | 12 |
| one-third one-fourth of the Task Force members, the research | 13 |
| entity
shall be
available to the Task Force for the purpose of | 14 |
| assessing other issues that Task Force members deem necessary | 15 |
| financial costs and
the different
health care models being | 16 |
| discussed . All inquiries made by Task Force members to
the
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| independent research entity shall be made available on the Task | 18 |
| Force's web
site.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-973, eff. 8-20-04.) | 20 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/30 rep.) | 21 |
| (20 ILCS 4045/35 rep.) | 22 |
| Section 90. The Health Care
Justice Act is amended by | 23 |
| repealing Sections 30 and 35.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 25 |
| 2010.
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