State on track to end health coverage program for immigrant adults
State-run program set to end July 1 while Congress considers wider Medicaid cuts
By Peter Hancock
Published: May 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - State officials are on track to shut down a program at the end of June that provides publicly funded health care coverage to more than 30,000 non-U.S. citizens in Illinois, including many who are in the country without legal authorization.
A legislative oversight committee took no action Tuesday on a set of administrative rules the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services adopted in March that will end the program, effective July 1 — the first day of the next fiscal year.
Sen. Bill Cunningham, D-Chicago, cochair of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, said the lack of action Tuesday means nothing has changed about the plans to bring the program to an end.
“It (the rule) is in place now. It’s phasing out. JCAR hasn’t taken any action on it,” Cunningham said in an interview after Tuesday’s meeting. “I don’t think there’s anything to read into it beyond that.”
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