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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, More than 43 million people in the United States |
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| (nearly one in six) do not have health insurance; this figure |
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| is increasing by about one million per year as more and more |
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| Americans "slip through the cracks" of the health care system; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, According to the U.S. Department of Health and |
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| Human Services, seven out of eight of the uninsured in America |
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| live in families with at least one working adult; because |
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| employer-based health coverage is declining (particularly in |
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| small firms), an increasing number of working Americans do not |
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| have health insurance; and
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| WHEREAS, Free clinics are volunteer-based providers of |
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| free or low-cost healthcare services to medically uninsured and |
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| under-insured people; and
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| WHEREAS, The care provided at these clinics is provided |
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| entirely by volunteer physicians and healthcare professionals |
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| who donate their time and skills; and
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| WHEREAS, There are over 30 such free clinics serving the |
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| underserved people of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, Funding for the clinics comes from a variety of |
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| sources: individual donors, businesses, religious |
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| organizations, private foundations, and program-based local, |
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| State, and federal grants; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE |
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| SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that a free medical clinic may |
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| receive reimbursement from the Illinois Department of Public |
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| Aid or may receive partial reimbursement from a patient based |