Illinois is one of the few states that provides Medicaid-style healthcare benefits to undocumented immigrants, but that coverage is proving costly and the state is scaling back. It’s causing a political rift.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration announced the coming changes on Friday. According to a news release from the state’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services, highlights include:
“There’s concerns about people who don’t know this program exists and will show up at the hospital needing cancer care or other acute care and would have been eligible for coverage and now won’t be,” Siegel said. “There’s certainly confusion and fear now and there’s also trepidation about what hasn’t happened yet that we expect to happen when a program that we’ve had for years now is suddenly closed down.
“The narrative around not being able to spend money on health care — and especially health care for the state’s most vulnerable — does come from a place of anti-immigrant sentiment and believing some people are more worthy of health care than others,” Siegel said.The organization has lots of allies, from Latino state lawmakers to Chicago City Council members to members of Congress.
But state Sen. Dave Syverson said he and other Republicans tried to warn Pritzker about the rising costs and were ignored. Now the state is learning that Illinois can’t afford to take on such a massive program. Syverson said thus far, undocumented immigrants receive better health care coverage than Illinois Medicaid recipients, who are part of a managed care system. He said at the least, those who are part of the immigrant health care programs should have the same setup.
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