Illinois DUers excellent online activist opportunity on Tuesday PM me

[wndycty]

Greetings Illinois DUers, PM me your e-mail address. On Tuesday I will be involved in a major announcement (details I can't release) and as soon as it becomes public I want to forward to as many people as possible. If upon receiving the e-mail from me you aren't interested fine, but for those who are interested please be sure to forward to as many friends and family as possible. For DUers who don't know me I hope others will vouch for me. Be sure to PM me. Thanks greataunt and check your e-mail on Tuesday, possibly as early as Monday evening. (This is initiative based not, candidate based).

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. I'll check wndy....

although I will be out Tuesday evening. And I will vouch for you.

:hi:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. For Chicago only?

Or will it effect Downstate as well? I don't live in Illinois anymore, but I have family that lives in the Carbondale area, and if it will affect then, I will email the information to them.

[wndycty]

3. Statewide with national implications

:kick:

[dogfacedboy]

4. wndycty--I'm new and can't PM you. Can you PM me? Thanks!

[kevsand]

5. I've worked with wndycty on projects before.

This is both a vouch and a kick...

[dogman]

6. Same here.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

[wndycty]

7. We are delayed until Thursday

Look for e-mail on Wednesday night, Thursday morning.

[wndycty]

8. Hint hint

More to come later

inois To Unveil Insurance Program

By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 6, 2005; Page A03

CHICAGO, Oct. 5 -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) will unveil a proposal Thursday to subsidize health insurance for 253,000 uninsured children in Illinois, a move that specialists describe as more far-reaching than any other program in the country.

Seventy-percent of the state's uninsured children belong to families that earn $40,000 to $80,000 a year -- too much to qualify for government programs but often too little to afford private insurance.

Under Blagojevich's All Kids proposal, endorsed by the leaders of both houses of the state legislature, a family of four earning $40,000 to $59,000 would pay $40 per month per child and $10 per doctor visit.

If the measure becomes law, the Blagojevich administration hopes to enroll 50,000 children the first year at a cost of $45 million.

"Who is falling through the cracks?" asked Barry Maram, director of the Department of Healthcare and Family Services. "The people at poverty levels are often covered, and the people who are making a relatively substantial income are covered through their employer or health insurance they've obtained."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/05/AR2005100502000.html

[wndycty]

9. Here it is!

Calls to legislators and letters to the editor will help with this effort and make it a reality, grassroots resources are being prepared I’ll get them to you later today.

Plan targets gap in kids' coverage

October 6, 2005

BY CHRIS FUSCO AND LORI RACKL Staff Reporters

Hundreds of thousands of Illinois children who do not have health insurance would be eligible for coverage under an ambitious proposal Gov. Blagojevich will announce today.

The unprecedented plan is aimed at families whose incomes are too high to qualify for Public Aid insurance for their children but still can't afford increasingly costly private coverage.

More than 250,000 Illinois children lack health insurance, according to U.S. census data and state research. About 75 percent of them come from middle-class families with household incomes between $40,000 and $80,000 a year.

The governor's plan, if approved by lawmakers, would make Illinois the only state to offer comprehensive health insurance coverage to every child, the governor's office and other health experts said.

Blagojevich pegs the cost at $45million the first year, when enrollment would be expected to reach 50,000.
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gov06.html

Governor Blagojevich will offer plan for uninsured
By Alexa Aguilar
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
10/05/2005

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
(Anne Ryan/AP)

Gov. Rod Blagojevich will announce today a new plan to provide health insurance to all uninsured Illinois children, a proposal his administration is touting as the most comprehensive in the nation.

Blagojevich has enlisted the Democratic leaders in both the House and the Senate to sign on as sponsors of the bill; they plan to introduce the legislation in this year's November veto session.

Ambitious health-care plan proposed

By Mary Massingale

of Copley News Service
SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich is proposing an innovative health-insurance program for children, regardless of income and financed by shifting most of the state's Medicaid population into an HMO-style system.

Leaders of the Democratic-controlled legislature are backing the $45 million proposal called "All Kids" for their fall veto session. The new program would begin operation July 1, 2006.

The chief of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services said Wednesday that the measure would close the gap for an estimated 253,000 uninsured children while capitalizing on a national, more cost-effective trend to move Medicaid patients to a managed-care system with a primary physician.
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http://www.pjstar.com/stories/100605/REG_B7OSGD9A.050.shtml

Governor's historic health insurance plan to cover all kids in Illinois

by Karen E. Pride, Chicago Defender
October 6, 2005

Gov. Rod Blagojevich will announce a groundbreaking health care proposal today that will guarantee health benefits for children and their families who can't afford private healthcare.

The program, called All Kids, would offer the insurance to families who earn too much to qualify for state-funded plans like KidCare.

If passed by the General Assembly, the program would begin in July, making Illinois the first state in the country to offer a comprehensive health care plan to all children in the state.
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http://www.chicagodefender.com/page/local.cfm?ArticleID=2479

Blagojevich: We'll insure all children

By Kurt Erickson
[e-mail]

SPRINGFIELD -- Every child in Illinois would get access to a state-funded health insurance program under a plan to be detailed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich today.

In what may be a first in the nation, the governor wants to make sure an estimated 253,000 currently uninsured children are covered by health insurance, which would cost an estimated $45 million.

But, the governor's program would not be limited to just low-income children.

"Children should have health care and our new program makes affordable, good health care available to every child in Illinois," said Blagojevich in a prepared statement.

The governor will announce the plan in Chicago. He wants lawmakers to approve it in the veto session that begins Oct. 25.

The proposal has the backing of House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President Emil Jones.
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http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/100605/new_20051006026.shtml