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The Blagojevich administration has expanded a state health insurance program to cover more adults, even though a legislative committee rejected the proposal earlier this week. […]

“JCAR’s role is merely advisory - it does not have the constitutional authority to suspend the regulation,” Abby Ottenhoff said in an e-mail. […]

“The administration may be inviting the legislative branch to sue,” Leitch said.

Ottenhoff would only say that the governor’s office has no plans of its own to challenge the committee’s authority in court.

According to an internal memo obtained Friday by GateHouse News Service, Family Care caseworkers were told to begin signing up Illinoisans who earn as much as 400 percent of the federal poverty level, or $82,600 for a family of four. The income cap had been 185 percent of the poverty level, or $38,203 for a family of four.

* Rep. Fritchey has more at Illinoize.

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Another week is in the books. I’m done. Head to Illinoize if you need more…

And now, for your listening enjoyment, Rip Lee Pryor and Devin Miller, with a special appearance by a currently infamous 1963 Cadillac convertible…


posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Nov 16, 07 @ 4:36 pm

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