Health care initiatives pushed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker were passed by the Illinois House, paving the way for a statewide ban on some controversial insurance industry practices.
Health care initiatives pushed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker were passed by the Illinois House Saturday, paving the way for a prohibition on controversial insurance industry practices such as a requirement that patients try treatments that differ from those prescribed by their physicians.
After a series of tweaks to the bills, the insurance industry dropped its opposition to legislation on most of the governor’s initiatives, except for a ban on certain short term, high cost insurance plans. For example, if a doctor wanted a patient to try Ozempic, it could be immediately prescribed if it was already on the list of medications covered by the patient’s insurance.
The plans are “giving people, who are more often than not between jobs, a false sense of security when in fact they are flying without a parachute,” Democratic Rep. Bob Morgan of Deerfield said on the House floor Saturday.
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