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Illinois Credit Unions: A Fair Financial Alternative
Thursday, Apr 22, 2021 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] 
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Illinois’ Clean Energy Boom Has Been Waitlisted – Jobs Are At Risk
Thursday, Apr 22, 2021 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] 4,000 Illinois homeowners and businesses tried to go solar this year – instead, they got waitlisted. A map of the waitlisted projects in each legislative district is here. Illinois approved more than 25,000 new wind and solar projects in a few years before the state’s program went over the funding cliff in 2020. Now thousands of Illinois residents and businesses are lined up to invest in renewable energy, but our state policy has put everything on hold. The Illinois Power Agency ran out of funding to approve new renewable energy projects in December. With state incentives in limbo, many solar businesses across the state haven’t sold a new system all year. That puts thousands of jobs at risk unless we pass legislation to fix this. Customers are ready to invest, solar installers are desperate to get to work and our clean energy goals are slipping further out of reach. The General Assembly needs to act before it’s too late. Take action at www.pathto100.net 
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Show Your Work
Thursday, Apr 22, 2021 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] If lawmakers’ goal is to create a map that ensures representation for communities of color and driven by community input, then why not show the work? Lawmakers should showcase their redistricting work so all Illinoisans, especially people of color, can see whether the maps are in their best interest. Let’s start with more notice for public hearings, transparency for map proposals, prioritizing the Federal Voting Rights Act and Illinois Voting Rights Act, and ensuring the public can weigh in and hear back from lawmakers about the final maps before votes are cast. A compliance report is necessary to show how map-makers used public input and met voting rights acts requirements. These changes can ensure that constituents in communities across Illinois understand the process. Learn more at changeil.org.
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Telehealth Saves Lives: Read One Man’s Story
Thursday, Apr 22, 2021 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] Jack Crowe felt a little something in his neck. When symptoms of a chest cold followed, Crowe and his wife left their cabin in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and started driving home to Chicago. Was it COVID-19? Crowe made a telehealth appointment with Rush University Medical Center to find out. Still far from home, Crowe told an ABC News affiliate, he was connected to a virtual care provider in five minutes. That provider, nurse practitioner Nicole Marks, told the ABC affiliate that Crowe’s chest pain and shortness of breath were “red flags.” Crowe needed to be seen by a doctor immediately. Taking Marks’ advice, Crowe sought emergency care at a Wisconsin hospital. There, he was diagnosed with aortic dissection, a rare and serious condition of a tear in the main artery that carries blood from the heart. “I went against my own instincts, which was to keep driving to Chicago another four hours. And if I had done that, I would have died,” said Crowe, who underwent emergency open-heart surgery. The lifesaving care Crowe received is just one example of the urgent need to pass House Bill 3498/HA1 and make telehealth coverage and payment permanent. Visit https://protectillinoistelehealth.org/ to learn more.
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Springfield: Restricting PBM Tools Will Raise Costs for Consumers, Employers + the State
Thursday, Apr 22, 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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Thursday, Apr 22, 2021 - Posted by Rich Miller * Today’s post is sponsored by Climate Jobs Illinois. Follow along with ScribbleLive…
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