2005 Illinois Code - Chapter 20 Executive Branch 20 ILCS 4045/ Health Care Justice Act.
(20 ILCS 4045/1)
Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Health Care
Justice Act.
(Source: P.A. 93‑973, eff. 8‑20‑04.)
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(20 ILCS 4045/5)
Sec. 5. Legislative findings. The General Assembly recognizes that the
U.S. census reported that on any given day an
estimated
1,800,000 Illinoisans are without health insurance,
and according to a March 2003 Robert Wood Johnson study, nearly 30% of the
non‑elderly Illinois population (3,122,000) during all or a large part of 2001 or 2002 were
uninsured;
a growing number of
Illinoisans are under‑insured, the consumer's share of the cost of health
insurance is growing, coverage in benefit packages is decreasing, and
record numbers of consumer complaints are lodged against managed care
companies regarding access to necessary health care services. The
General Assembly believes that the State must work to assure access to
quality health care for all residents of Illinois, and at the same time, the
State must contain health care costs while maintaining and improving the
quality of health care.
(Source: P.A. 93‑973, eff. 8‑20‑04.)
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(20 ILCS 4045/10)
Sec. 10. Policy. It is a policy goal of the State of Illinois to insure
that all residents
have access to quality health care at costs that are affordable.
(Source: P.A. 93‑973, eff. 8‑20‑04.)
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(20 ILCS 4045/15)
Sec. 15. Health care access plan. On or before July 1, 2007, the
State of
Illinois is strongly encouraged to implement a health care access plan that does the
following:
(1) provides access to a full range of preventive, |
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acute, and long‑term health care services;
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(2) maintains and improves the quality of health
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care services offered to Illinois residents;
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(3) provides portability of coverage, regardless of
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(4) provides core benefits for all Illinois
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(5) encourages regional and local consumer
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(6) contains cost‑containment measures;
(7) provides a mechanism for reviewing and
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implementing multiple approaches to preventive medicine based on new technologies; and
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(8) promotes affordable coverage options for the
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(Source: P.A. 93‑973, eff. 8‑20‑04.)
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(20 ILCS 4045/20)
Sec. 20. Adequate Health Care Task Force.
There is created an Adequate Health Care Task Force. The Task Force
shall consist of 29 voting members appointed as follows: 5 shall be appointed by the Governor; 6 shall be appointed by the President of the Senate,
6 shall be appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate, 6 shall be
appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and 6 shall be
appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. The Task Force shall have a chairman and a vice‑chairman who
shall be elected by the voting members at the first meeting
of the Task Force. The Director of Public
Health or his or her designee, the Director of Aging or his or
her designee, the Director of Public Aid or his or her
designee, the Director of Insurance or his or her designee, and
the Secretary of Human Services or his or her designee shall represent their respective departments and shall be invited to attend Task Force meetings, but shall not be members of the Task Force. The members of the Task Force shall be appointed
within 30 days after the effective date of this Act. The departments of State
government represented on
the Task Force shall work cooperatively to provide administrative
support for the Task Force; the Department of Public Health shall be the
primary agency in providing that administrative support.
(Source: P.A. 93‑973, eff. 8‑20‑04.)
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(20 ILCS 4045/25)
Sec. 25. Public hearings.
(a) The Task Force shall seek public
input on the development of the health care access plan by holding
a public hearing in each Illinois congressional district starting no later than January 1, 2005 and
ending on November 30, 2005. Each State Representative and State Senator
located in
each such congressional district shall be invited to participate in
the hearing in that district
and help to gather input from interested parties. A web site for the Task Force shall be developed and
linked to
the Governor's home page for input to be
provided and to keep the public informed. The Task Force's web site shall be
specifically highlighted and have independent pages reporting all activities
and linkages
for people to access. Minutes from all of the Task Force's meetings shall be
available on
the web site, and a hard copy of this information shall also be made available
for those
persons without access to the Task Force's web site.
The Task Force may also consult with
health care providers, health care consumers, and other appropriate
individuals and organizations to assist in the development of the
health care access plan.
(b) Not later than September 1, 2004, the Illinois Department of Public
Health,
subject to appropriation or the availability of other funds for such purposes
and using a public request for proposals process, shall
contract with an
independent research entity experienced in assessing health care reforms,
health care financing, and health care delivery models. Upon the request of at
least one‑fourth of the Task Force members, the research entity
shall be
available to the Task Force for the purpose of assessing financial costs and
the different
health care models being discussed. All inquiries made by Task Force members to
the
independent research entity shall be made available on the Task Force's web
site.
(Source: P.A. 93‑973, eff. 8‑20‑04.)
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(20 ILCS 4045/30)
Sec. 30. Final report.
No later than March 15, 2006, the Task Force shall submit its final report
on the health care access plan to the General Assembly and the
Governor. The final report may recommend a combination of more than one type
of plan
and alternative methods of funding the plan. The final report by the
Task Force
shall make
recommendations for a health care access plan or plans
that would
provide access to a full
range of preventive, acute, and long‑term health care services to residents
of the State of Illinois by July 1, 2007, including:
(1) an integrated system or systems of health care |
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(2) incentives to be used to contain costs;
(3) core benefits that would be provided under each
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(4) reimbursement mechanisms for health care
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(5) administrative efficiencies;
(6) mechanisms for generating spending priorities
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based on multidisciplinary standards of care established by verifiable replicated research studies demonstrating quality and cost effectiveness of interventions, providers, and facilities;
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(7) methods for reducing the cost of prescription
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drugs both as part of, and as separate from, the health care access plan;
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(8) appropriate reallocation of existing health care
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(9) equitable financing of each proposal; and
(10) recommendations concerning the delivery of
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long‑term care services, including:
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(A) those currently covered under Title XIX of
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(B) recommendations on potential cost sharing
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arrangements for long‑term care services and the phasing in of such arrangements over time;
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(C) consideration of the potential for utilizing
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informal care‑giving by friends and family members;
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(D) recommendations on cost‑containment
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strategies for long‑term care services;
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(E) the possibility of using independent
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financing for the provision of long‑term care services; and
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(F) the projected cost to the State of Illinois
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over the next 20 years if no changes were made in the present system of delivering and paying for long‑term care services.
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(Source: P.A. 93‑973, eff. 8‑20‑04.)
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(20 ILCS 4045/35)
Sec. 35. Further legislative action. No later than December 31, 2006, the General Assembly is strongly encouraged to vote on
legislation that either enacts the Task Force's recommendation or provides for
another
health care access plan that meets the criteria set forth in Section 15.
(Source: P.A. 93‑973, eff. 8‑20‑04.)
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(20 ILCS 4045/99)
Sec. 99. This Act takes effect July 1, 2004.
(Source: P.A. 93‑973, eff. 8‑20‑04.)
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