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Springfield: Restricting PBM Tools Will Raise Costs for Consumers, Employers + the State
Friday, Mar 19, 2021 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] Employers in Illinois provide prescription drug coverage for nearly 6.7 million Illinoisans. In order to help keep care more affordable, employers work with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), who deploy a variety of tools to reduce prescription drug costs and help improve health outcomes. In addition to helping employers, PBMs also work with the Illinois Medicaid program in the same way to help control costs. Over the last five years, PBMs have saved the state and taxpayers nearly $340 million. Today, Illinois faces a multibillion budget shortfall as more Illinoisans are relying on Medicaid to help meet their health care coverage needs. As legislators work to address these challenges, one way to help ensure continued cost savings is by strengthening the PBM tools that the State and employers use, which are poised to save employers, consumers and the State $39 billion over the next 10 years. These are meaningful savings that will help continue to contain costs, ensure consumer access to medicines and drive savings in public health programs. Amid a pandemic and economic challenges, now is the time to strengthen, not limit, the tools that employers, consumers and the State rely on to manage costs and ensure consumers can access the medicines they need.
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Three Months To Make History: Time Is Running Out To Pass The Path To 100 Act
Friday, Mar 19, 2021 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] The US is surging ahead on clean energy while Illinois falls behind. The Path to 100 Act (HB 2640 / SB 1601) was introduced more than two years ago to address the crisis facing renewable energy in Illinois. Since then:
• More than 3,000 solar projects have been placed on waitlists and won’t be built unless the general assembly acts • Illinois’ solar industry lost an estimated 3,500 jobs • California, Colorado, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Washington and Virginia all passed 100% clean energy legislation – and pulled renewable energy investment and talent away from Illinois • President Biden campaigned and won on a promise to decarbonize the electricity sector by 2035 If we don’t fix Illinois’ renewable energy policy this session, we will lose thousands more wind and solar jobs and be left behind as the rest of the country gets to work building to clean energy. Take action at www.pathto100.net.
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President Obama Wants Lawmakers To Stop Gerrymandering
Friday, Mar 19, 2021 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] Are we going to continue with political maps hammered out in backroom deals or are our lawmakers ready to strive for the ideals set out by President Obama? “The movement for fair maps will determine the course of progress on every issue we care about for the next decade.” - August, 2019 “I think people don’t completely appreciate how much gerrymandering affects the outcome [of elections],” Obama said. “You can draw a district that almost guarantees one party is going to win instead of another because you have voter histories and you have a sense of where people are typically going to vote.” - September, 2020 “I’d love to see changes at the state level that reduce political gerrymandering.” - January, 2015 “We have to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters and not the other way around.” - January, 2016  Learn more at CHANGEIL.org.
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