SPRINGFIELD – Governor Pritzker today announced that the State of Illinois has erased over $1.1 billion in medical debt for more than half a million Illinoisans through the Illinois Medical Debt Relief Program. The announcement comes ahead of Governor Pritzker’s State of the State and proposed budget address tomorrow, previewing a focus on improving affordability.
With rising costs and devastating impacts from Trump’s Budget Bill on healthcare accessibility, Governor Pritzker’s initiative is providing relief to hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans in all 102 counties…