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How Will the Senate Health Reform Bill Help Illinois? Two Thumbs up!

By John Peller - Posted on 24 November 2009

Over at Progress Illinois, Angela Caputo has a great (and concise!) summary of the how health reform will help Illinois. It comes form a report HHS released yesterday describing how health reform will help each state. We give it two thumbs up.

"Here's the estimated take-away in Illinois (this analysis does not factor in the local impact of a public option):

1.8 million residents who do not currently have insurance and 612,000 residents who have nongroup insurance could get affordable coverage through the health insurance exchange.

1 million residents could qualify for premium tax credits to help them purchase health coverage.

1.8 million seniors would receive free preventive services.

314,000 seniors would have their brand-name drug costs in the Medicare Part D “doughnut hole” halved.

144,000 small businesses could be helped by a small business tax credit to make premiums more affordable.

Read the rest here.

And while you're all excited about making health care reform happen, tell Illinois U.S. Senators Durbin and Burris to please make it happen.