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Guard What’s Good: Oppose HB3799
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] 
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It’s Time To Bring Safer Rides To Illinois
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] Waymo is ready to bring safe, reliable, autonomous rides to Illinois – but we need your help! Waymo is designed to follow all traffic laws and obey speed limits, and the data shows Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are involved in five times fewer injury-causing collisions compared to humans (as of 6/2025, see waymo.com/safety). Let’s bring safer rides to Illinois.  Waymo’s autonomous vehicles can improve access to transportation for Illinois residents with travel-limiting disabilities like vision impairment, to reach medical care, groceries, and social activities. Waymo’s all-electric autonomous vehicles also provide a more sustainable way for people to get around, preventing 315+ tons of carbon emissions with every 250K trips provided through our ride-hailing service.
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Critical 340B Program Needs Federal Reforms
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] A federal program created in 1992 to support safety-net clinics with the care they provided to uninsured patients is being abused by for-profit pharmacies and large hospital systems. The 340B program has become a cash cow with profits flowing away from the very patients and communities the program was meant to help. Reform at the federal level is critical to ensure that the 340B program works as it was intended by providing necessary funds to safety-net clinics that serve some of the neediest patient populations in Illinois and across the country. Multiple investigations have found that the program has created perverse incentives for hospitals to prescribe more and higher-cost medicines, as well as buy up smaller independent clinics and practices to benefit from their prescriptions as well. Meanwhile for-profit pharmacies are making millions of dollars off hospitals, with no requirements to provide low-cost medicines to patients. Sisters Working It Out supports reforms that increase transparency and improve oversight to help return 340B to its original purpose of helping low-income patients and the safety-net clinics they rely on. Congress must act to reform this critical federal program.
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Illinois Credit Unions: People Helping People
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] This year’s CU Kind Day brought together 74 credit unions and partners: 1,800+ volunteers, and 3,400+ volunteer hours — resulting in over $81k goods & donations that supported 140 community organizations statewide.  We’re proud to see how Illinois CUs continue to live out the People Helping People philosophy — and inspire others across the nation to do the same. Read more: https://ow.ly/1xeF50XeZo3. Paid for By Illinois Credit Union Leage.
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Big Pharma Is Lying About 340B: Illinois Hospitals ARE Investing In Low-Income, Underserved Communities – Vote YES On HB 2371 SA 2
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] Foreign drugmakers are lying about the 340B bill. Why? The answer is all too obvious: Big Pharma is all about protecting their profits. Anyone who’s had sticker shock when paying for medications knows this. And our elected officials know this; in fact, a U.S. Senate committee recently issued a scathing report on how drugmakers jack up new drug prices and overcharge Americans. HB 2371 SA 2 is desperately needed legislation that will help over 100 Illinois hospitals serving low-income and uninsured patients to pass on discounted drug prices to their patients and invest in needed healthcare services. These hospitals include Safety Net providers like Sinai Chicago and Critical Access Hospitals, as well as UChicago Medicine, the state’s No. 1 provider of Medicaid services. Here’s the truth about 340B:
• HB 2371 SA 2 does NOT require a state appropriation. • Similar laws were passed 20 states and upheld by the courts. • HB 2371 SA 2 implements strong transparency requirements. In just one year, three Big Pharma drugmakers had combined profits of nearly $39 billion, with executive salaries at nearly $154 million. Foreign drugmakers are investing in themselves, not communities. Say NO to Big Pharma and YES to Illinois hospitals and the jobs and care they provide. Learn more.
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Clean And Reliable Grid Affordability Act (SB25) Is The Only Bill This Veto Session That Can Slash Skyrocketing Electric Rate Increases
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller [The following is a paid advertisement.]  This fall veto session, only one bill can reduce spiking electric rates – the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability (CRGA) Act. If enacted, CRGA would direct the state to procure battery energy storage and finally implement the kind of long-range planning that will help stabilize the grid and lower costs for ratepayers. Government (Illinois Power Agency) and private sector (The Power Bureau) studies agree CRGA will save consumers on monthly bills and slash tens of billions in costs. Want more proof? Look to Texas where consumers saved an estimated $750 million in 2024, sheltering them from demand-induced price spikes and preventing blackouts in the process. These are benefits Texas saw from storage even as the state reduced its gas generation capacity by 166 MW last year. The solutions offered in CRGA are nimble enough to address growing data center power demands and meet other electrification-related power needs. It’s the only bill in Veto that can lower rates for consumers and ensure economic development efforts are set up for success. After all, if we lack power and capacity, we can’t add the jobs that come with new data centers and other large power users. Without action, prices will continue to rise with no end in sight. It’s time for the General Assembly to pass the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act.
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