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Critical 340B Program Needs Federal Reforms
Tuesday, Oct 21, 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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What Illinois Can Learn From Texas On Battery Energy Storage
Tuesday, Oct 21, 2025 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] As Illinois confronts skyrocketing electric bills, legislators are on the hunt for solutions that provide relief as quickly as possible. Battery energy storage is our best and most cost-effective solution. But last session— without evidence —opponents attempted to claim that battery energy storage wouldn’t work. Try telling that to Texas, where the rapid deployment of battery storage has already prevented blackouts and saved consumers billions. Called “Ground Zero for the US Battery Boom” by Bloomberg, Texas added enough storage in 2023 to power 3 million homes and drop grid emergency risk during peak hours from 16% to less than 1%. The result? Storage saved consumers an estimated $750 million in 2024. Texas has proven that storage is the quickest, cheapest, most reliable way to get consumers relief from skyrocketing, demand-induced price spikes. Storage is a nimble way to address growing populations, power-hungry data centers, and meet other electrification-related power needs. These are benefits Texas saw from storage even as the state reduced its gas generation capacity by 166 MW last year. Illinois lawmakers should follow Texas’s lead and pass the Clean and Reliable Grid Act this fall to deploy 6GW of energy storage by 2035. Click here for more information.
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It’s Time To Bring Safer Rides To Illinois
Tuesday, Oct 21, 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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Your Support of 340B Is Crucial To Low-Income And Uninsured Patients – Hospitals Want To Provide More Services; Big Pharma Only Sees Profits, Not Patients
Tuesday, Oct 21, 2025 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] Why do hospitals want to protect the federal 340B program? Because it helps them care for patients. The 1992 program, created by Congress, has allowed hospitals serving many uninsured and low-income patients to “stretch scarce federal resources as far as possible, reaching more eligible patients and providing more comprehensive services.” Pharmaceutical manufacturers agreed to expand 340B in 2010 to include more hospitals, but in 2020 began imposing restrictions on 340B providers to protect their bottom line and hundreds of billions of dollars in annual revenue. Big Pharma claims patients aren’t benefiting from 340B. Here’s the truth: • Hospitals put 340B savings toward addressing critical community health needs. The Illinois Patient Access to Pharmacy Protection Act, House Bill 2371 SA 2, reinforces 340B through the State’s authority to regulate the distribution of drugs and protect access to healthcare. Big Pharma’s 340B restrictions have slashed the savings from discounted drugs that over 100 Illinois hospitals rely on to reduce drug costs for patients and expand healthcare services.
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