All Illinois Vets to receive health care!

[DollyM]

Just found this and breathed a big sigh of relief. Finally a chance for those of us who are not entirely empoverished (according to VA standards) to be able to get decent health care for our Veteran family members at an affordable cost. My husband is a diabetic whose employer doesn't offer health care coverage or sick leave. My have been just about bankrupted with medical bills and VA is pretty severe as to what they consider underincome to qualify for free health care. (crappy as it is!) With this program, we can get affordable TIMELY health care without having to drive 70 miles to see a Doctor at the VA hospital.

05/29/06 Governor Signs Bill To Help Some Veterans Get Affordable Health Care
CHICAGO (AP) - Governor Rod Blagojevich signed into law Sunday afternoon a bill he says will get affordable health care to more than nine-thousand Illinois veterans. The "Veterans Care" program is aimed vets who earn too much to qualify for Veterans Administration health care but can't afford to buy it for themselves.
Blagojevich signed the bill on Memorial Day eve at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Plaza along the Chicago River.

To be eligible for Veterans Care, vets must be between 19 and 64 years old, have been uninsured for the past six months, be ineligible for other federal and state health-care programs and be willing to pay a 40-dollar monthly premium and co-pays.

The governor says he hopes to eventually expand the program to encompass more of the estimated 70-thousand uninsured veterans in Illinois.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Huzzah and three cheers for the Gov!

I can't pronounce his name, but he's a decent fellow-first health care for all kids, and now the vets! I'm glad your husband will now get some relief!

Welcome to DU :hi:

[Placebo]

2. Bluh-goy-uh-vich.

:hi:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. My brother teases me

because I can't say the name. My family is from Illinois-I'm the only one living in another state.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. ex squeeze me, but, his timing is suspect. EXTREMELY suspect.

Bloggo waited until the run up for his re-election campaign to do anything.
He argh! he - - - Arrgh!.

ask any illinoisioner, and you will see that this guy has been a horrific gov. Just like Ryan before him, I count the days before his indictment. At least our pols are bilateral criminals. Both sides are criminals from their core.

[linazelle]

5. indictment for what?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. how about the 40K for jobs?

or the political firing of non-political staffers in most agencies?

the guy has been a MAJOR disappointment. Many mainstream dems I know here are begging for Jim Edgar (R) to run just so they can feel good about not voting for him

[linazelle]

9. 40k for jobs? What does that mean?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. daddy in law had proof that sonny boy was putting people in top jobs

in exchange for a minimum of 40K as a campaign contribution. Even his pol-extraordinaire, daddy-in-law, found his actions offensive. Then, a bunch of petty shit about land fill contracts, politically protected positions, and worse, and all of a sudden, thanksgiving was a chilly affair. and daddy complains in public.

except, so do many others. and funny, Bloggo's $$$ funds seem to rise with each new hire.

I do admit that he has had some great ideas. I hate his timing. His use of those items as a campaign program and his constant national PR for his presidential campaign.

If the GOP had any brains in this state (not to worry. they don't) If there was a viable third party, or if there was even a qualified dem in the primary, we would never hear of him again. unfortunately, . . . . .

[linazelle]

11. Where is the proof of this? Do you have a link? I can't find anything

on it. At this point, it sounds like hearsay.

Republicans knew they couldn't do anything about Ryan's obvious criminal activities which led to the loss of lives on Illinois roads. So now, even as they suffer Blagojevich, they will dig up and make up anything to try to equate whatever he does to Ryan. It's pure bullshit.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. proof? other than repeated public comments by daddy in law? or

the rumors flowing around Springpatch, from friends of mine who see it happening?
nothing that would stand up in a court of law. Then again, I am neither a grand jury, nor the prosecutor. Those jobs are being done by fed pros at this very moment.

If it quacks, seeks its meals under the water, has feathers, flies in "V" shaped groups and pisses off golfers, to me it seems like a duck.

[DollyM]

6. He will get my vote again as Ryan certainly didn't help families!

I agree he has had his problems in office but I will take a Democrat who provides some health care relief any day over a Republican like Ryan who just pocketed the money and ran. I worked for a Substance Abuse Prevention Program during the time Ryan was Governor. Talk about being dirty and using people, he had it down to a fine art. He would make up these "look good" programs that supposedly were to help kids avoid substance abuse and then use us to promote his "look good" agenda. I got sick of being Ryans hired hand when that wasn't the job i was hired to do. I can tell you first hand that Ryan was corrupt. I didn't find any of that with Blagojevich. He isn't perfect but at least he has done something positive for families and people who are suffering in Illinois with medical bills. I will take him over Topinka any day!

[linazelle]

7. Obviously the indictment is just wishful thinking. nt

[Mugu]

12. I’ll just bet that this bill sounds good,

but will cover virtually nobody. I found out the hard way that Illinois’ veteran means inducted into the military in Illinois. Veterans that were inducted into the military in other states, but living in Illinois and paying Illinois taxes for years do not count.

I’ve lived in Illinois since 1979 and have very little income (I’m unemployed and living on my meager savings). But, I’ll bet that I will not qualify.

Regards,

Mugu