Illinois Healthcare Protection Act advances
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Gov. JB Pritzker’s health insurance reforms for Illinois are one step closer to becoming law.
The House has sent the Healthcare Protection Act (HB2499) to his desk. The act would ban controversial step therapy, when an insurance company makes a patient take an alternate and often cheaper medication first before they cover the treatment their doctor prescribed. A bill was also passed to ban short-term insurance plans, which offer coverage to people who don’t get insurance through their job.
Pritzker called the move a “historic win for patients across the state,” and he plans to sign the bill.
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