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In the News: What Illinois faces if congressional Republicans slash Medicaid

Medicaid funding cuts could hit Illinois hard! In a recent full-length article for Crain’s Chicago Business, Health & Medicine’s Policy Director Wesley Epplin warns, “Increasingly, people who were covered by Medicaid would go without preventive care, end up sicker and in the emergency...

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Op-Ed: Republicans’ threatened Medicaid cuts would cause disease, death and destruction

The health and well-being of millions of Illinois residents are under attack as the Trump administration and congressional Republicans push forward drastic Medicaid cuts. Health & Medicine’s Policy Director, Wesley Epplin, sheds light on this urgent issue in an op-ed published in The Chicago...

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