However, the latest news and the data uncovered some disturbing truths about the state of Illinois health insurance and health care. Let it into focus.
Medicaid in Illinois
- About 2.7 million people received comprehensive Medicaid benefits in Illinois the year latest. That number spiked because of the huge amount of people who have lost their job or the employee sponsored health insurance because of the recession.
- Most of the beneficiaries are children from low-income families, but on behalf of seniors for the bulk of Medicaid costs.
- Department of Illinois health and family, which administers the Medicaid program has a total budget of medical aid to $ 14.2 billion. Aggressive initiatives are in the works to reduce the budget down.
- The Illinois Medicaid system is backed up considerably, with hospitals waiting several months for recovery of Medicaid services.
health is Illinois?
overall health status could certainly be better. Take a look at the following statistics:
- Approximately 19 percent of adults under 65 are without health insurance
- About 13 percent of adults could not see a doctor in. past year because of cost.
- The adult obesity rate was stable at 27 percent.
Health is Chicago?
is a world class city and the third largest in the country, but how Chicago measure in the health care department does? It seems they are at the bottom of the list.
- About 306 health care markets nationwide, Chicago 215th class, according to a recent report by the Commonwealth Fund, a health care research foundation based in New York.
- 92.2 percent of Chicago of patients hospitalized for pneumonia received recommended care, below the national median of 96.9 percent.
- Nearly 25 percent of all Medicare patients in Chicago were readmitted with 30 days, well above the national median of 17.7 percent.
- average Medicare payment per patient is $ 10,334 (almost 30 percent more than the national average).
- payment of the average commercial health insurance per patient is $ 3,700 (almost 12 percent more than the national average)
- Chicago ranked behind the cities :. Boston (41), Philadelphia (101), Manhattan (127) and Detroit (189)
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