Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker desires to ultimately remove medical debt for as much as a million folks within the state.
And faculty staff in Iowa will seemingly be allowed to carry weapons onto campus for what’s billed as an preliminary line of protection throughout a violent assault.
Host Jim NIedelman talks about that with former Rock Island County Republican Occasion Chairman Drue Mielke and former Rock Island Mayor Mark Schwiebert, a Democrat.
Pritzker is campaigning to advertise one of many priorities of his finances speech: eliminating medical debt for 340,000 folks within the state.
His present proposal would spend $10 million to remove $1 billion in debt. He desires this to achieve one million folks within the subsequent few years for a complete of $four billion.
We perceive that individuals with weak medical insurance will be saddled with tens of hundreds of dollars in payments they can’t pay.
“There could also be folks up in arms as a result of, as I perceive it, it additionally consists of funding for immigrants and well being care prices for the undocumented,” Mielke stated.
“I believe the immigrant problem may be very exaggerated,” Schwiebert stated. “It's a really smart coverage.”
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