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Plan targets gap in kids' coverage
October 6, 2005
BY CHRIS FUSCO AND LORI RACKL Staff Reporters
Hundreds of thousands of Illinois children who do not have health insurance would be eligible for coverage under an ambitious proposal Gov. Blagojevich will announce today.
The unprecedented plan is aimed at families whose incomes are too high to qualify for Public Aid insurance for their children but still can't afford increasingly costly private coverage.
More than 250,000 Illinois children lack health insurance, according to U.S. census data and state research. About 75 percent of them come from middle-class families with household incomes between $40,000 and $80,000 a year.
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