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Health care key governor race issue
Illinois for Health Care

On the issue of health care, the governor's race pits an incumbent with a strong record of expanding medical coverage against one challenger focused on controlling costs and another advocating universal health insurance.

The stakes are enormous: For the first time, health care overtook education as the largest spending item in this year's Illinois budget.

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Hare, Zinga debate jobs, health care
Illinois for Health Care

The candidates for Illinois' 17th Congressional District seat covered a lot of ground in a Monday forum in Milan.

Andrea Zinga, the GOP contender, and her Democrat opponent Phil Hare, spoke on topics ranging from jobs to health care to the Iraq war before scores of people at the Milan Community Center.

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Candidates differ over how to fund health care
Illinois for Health Care

With health-care costs for the poor and elderly taking up a larger share of the tight state budget, the candidates to become Illinois' next governor face a difficult task in reconciling need and cost.

In responding to the fourth in a series of Tribune questionnaires on issues facing the state, the contenders for governor on the Nov. 7 ballot offer vastly different views on state-financed health care, which is now taking up more than a quarter of the state budget.

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BLAGOJEVICH: We're creating affordable healthcare for all
Illinois for Health Care

There are 45 million uninsured people in America. That's 45 million too many. I believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. And that's why I have made health care my top priority as Governor.

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State's 'chief nurse' addresses shortage
Illinois for Health Care

Michele Bromberg, the state's "chief nurse," said Thursday the idea of a state center for nursing will eventually help alleviate what is a growing shortage of nurses across Illinois.

Bromberg, whose official title is nursing act coordinator for the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, was at Blessing Hospital as part of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's state-wide "listen and learn forum."

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Council fails to override Daley big box veto
Illinois for Health Care

Sponsors of the city's big box ordinance said Wednesday the fight for fair wages will not end with the City Council upholding the mayor's veto.

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Cuts may jeopardize seniors' access to medical care
Illinois for Health Care

The Illinois State Medical Society warns Congress that unless it takes steps to reverse the 5.1 percent cut in Medicare's reimbursement to doctors, Illinois senior citizens' access to medical care will be at risk.

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Families plead for health-care change
Illinois for Health Care

Marilynn Coleman was in the middle of chemotherapy when her insurance company canceled her coverage.

She kept up with the cancer treatments but now, nine months later, 63-year-old Coleman has a new set of problems – like anemia.

And despite her best efforts, she still has no insurance.

"How I'm going to pay these bills, which are well over $200,000, I have no idea," said Coleman, of Elgin. "But I'm trying to get well."

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Uninsured call on Hastert for reform
Illinois for Health Care

About a dozen people called upon House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Tuesday to work toward strengthening the health-care system to provide affordable health care to all.

The event, hosted by Illinois for Health Care, was part of the National Health Care Day of Action, in which people in 50 cities across 30 states participated. It comes at the forefront of mid-term elections and updated Census Bureau statistics on the uninsured, to be released next week.

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Chicago mayor vetoes big-box living wage ordinance
Illinois for Health Care

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on Monday vetoed a "living wage" ordinance that would require large retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Target Corp. (TGT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) to pay escalating hourly wages and benefits.

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