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* From the First Lady…
The majority of #pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. Among key recommendations, create or expand home visiting programs to target high-risk mothers, increase access to substance use and #mentalhealth services. Read the report here: https://t.co/t95zkkPkkd pic.twitter.com/BQXA9TuIPI
— Diana Rauner (@ILFirstLady) October 20, 2018
* From the very top of the report’s “Key Recommendations”…
Illinois should expand Medicaid eligibility for the postpartum period from 60 days to one year after delivery
* From the governor…
But the Republican governor remains critical of the expansion of Medicaid eligibility that took place in 2014 under his Democratic predecessor, Pat Quinn, and continues to be funded in large part through the federal Affordable Care Act.
Rauner, who previously said he would have vetoed the Medicaid expansion, told The State Journal-Register in a recent interview that he is concerned about the impact of the expansion on Illinois taxpayers and disturbed by the trend of more people getting publicly financed health insurance rather than employer-sponsored coverage.
The governor said the expansion “basically has dramatically increased costs for taxpayers, and it has increased the number of folks who are getting health care at the expense of taxpayers rather than through working, and I think that’s a wrong trend.”
Rauner added, “I think we should get folks out working and getting covered in the workplace and the private marketplace rather than through a government program funded by taxpayers.”
posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 9:25 am
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===Rauner added, “I think we should get folks out working and getting covered in the workplace and the private marketplace rather than through a government program funded by taxpayers.”===
Pregnancy-related deaths are bad, terrible. I tear up when I think about it. But taxes…
Comment by Cubs in '16 Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 9:31 am
Diana Rauner should contact the Pritzker family and JB Pritzker to partner with her to change the damage Bruce Rauner is causing…
…
… again.
Diana got HB40 signed, she’s happy.
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 9:35 am
New York Times today had a story about how pregnant women are getting miscarriages at work because there are no regulations requiring businesses to give them light duty. Maybe the Gov and Diane could get working on this too.
Comment by Da Big Bad Wolf Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 9:35 am
Diana Rauner chose to be publicly active in the campaigns and administration.
So it’s fair game to call her out on this spectacularly dishonest and cynical nonsense here.
She was part of the Squeeze the Beast crew that willfully bled social services to death as a political tactic. No amount of warm and fuzzy noises changes that fact.
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 9:37 am
I’m sure the governor will remind the president of The Ounce this is a business decision.
That should be enough of an answer for Diana Rauner.
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 9:44 am
The Governor is having his cake and eating it too. His administration has fully embraced the expansion of Medicaid because it allows the state to shift costs from GRF to the federal government. To say he would have vetoed the enabling legislation is a joke.
Comment by Just Me Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 9:45 am
The 3rd Key Recommendation is the one most likely of the upmost concern and promotion for Dr. Rauner. It is the one that most closely ties to what she have been pushing (with public dollars) for The Ounce to lead and be a fiscal agent on:
“The State should create or expand home visiting programs to target high-risk mothers, such as doula programs, in Illinois during pregnancy and the postpartum period. The State should also expand efforts to provide universal home visiting to all mothers within three weeks of giving birth.”
https://www.theounce.org/what-we-do/programs/
Comment by Anon221 Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 9:48 am
Hey, Ounce if Prevention Fund - what is the transition plan over there?
I think a fair reading of the Ethics Act reveals The Ounce is banned from receiving state funding as long as the ex-governor’s immediate family works there.
I would love to here alternate theories, but expect a complai t to be filed with the Ethics Panel on Inauguration Day.
Comment by Juvenal Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 9:53 am
Healthcare should be a big issue in this election, and Rauner’s goin’ all Paul Ryan, not wantin’ to give the takers any health insurance unless they get a job first.
Some people are in between jobs, and some work whatever jobs they can get, that may or may not be steady. Some can’t work suddenly because of dread diseases.
But there’s been no interruption of Rauner’s public trough gorgin’, nor Paul Ryan’s. Many Christian values people give the richest billions in free money but want to turn the poorest upside-down, grabbing them by the ankles, and shake every unearned public penny out of their pockets.
Comment by Grandson of Man Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 10:45 am
I find it interesting that Diana Rauner, via her 1st lady account, is involved in publicizing this just days before we vote whether to re-elect her husband. It feels like a manipulative attempt to subliminally tout this as an achievement by her husband.
Comment by Happy Retiree Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 11:07 am
==The majority of #pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. ==
And thanks to your husband, we pay for abortion doctors to cause those pregnancy-related deaths.
#Blindedbypolitics
Comment by VanillaMan Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 11:30 am
===Rauner, who previously said he would have vetoed the Medicaid expansion, told The State Journal-Register in a recent interview that he is concerned about the impact of the expansion on Illinois taxpayers and disturbed by the trend of more people getting publicly financed health insurance rather than employer-sponsored coverage.===
Yeah, because everyone knows your healthcare and whether you go bankrupt over healthcare bills should be subject to the at-will whims of your employer to keep you on the job.
Comment by PublicServant Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 1:22 pm
“I think we should get folks out working and getting covered in the workplace and the private marketplace rather than through a government program funded by taxpayers.”
The only way some of these mothers can work is when daycare is paid for. They make such little pay that day care would eat up all of their money plus some depending on how many children they have. Number 2, there are enough jobs for everyone.
Comment by M Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 3:57 pm
==I think a fair reading of the Ethics Act reveals The Ounce is banned from receiving state funding as long as the ex-governor’s immediate family works there.==
Won’t be a problem once the ex-gov and his immediate family move to Italy./s
Comment by G'Kar Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 4:25 pm
=I think we should get folks out working and getting covered in the workplace and the private marketplace rather than through a government program funded by taxpayers.=
OK Gov. So will you force all those employers out there that do not cover health insurance to do so? Give me a break.
Comment by Shevek Monday, Oct 22, 18 @ 5:02 pm