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Raquel Prendkowski, director of the emergency department for Sinai Health System, thinks some of the death and suffering from COVID-19 could have been avoided if more seniors had regular treatment for chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes and heart disease. She’s hopeful that Illinois’ new policy of providing public health insurance for all low-income noncitizen seniors will help more of them seek treatment.
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As a nurse manager for one of Chicago’s busiest safety-net hospitals, Raquel Prendkowski has witnessed COVID-19’s devastating toll on many of the city’s most vulnerable people, including those who lack health insurance because of their immigration status.
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During the evenings in September 2020, Kimberly Mauer, a partner in finance at Cincinnati-based Frost Brown Todd LLC, retreated to her basement. There, she painted dozens of curvy wooden hearts in the blue color of the firmâs logo. Mauer, chair of the Womenâs Initiative Committee of the 525-lawyer firm, had already convened âParents with Childrenâ chats, after COVID-19 closures sent lawyers home to work remotely and children home to learn remotely. âItâs been a huge burden for them, emotionally and psychologically,â Mauer says. The chats drew women and men in a two-to-one ratio, and Mauer arranged for 120 blue hearts, complete with a bow and note, to go out to all. âOne woman told me she got the heart and cried,â Mauer notes.
Monthly premiums for health insurance coverage through Illinois’ online marketplace are trending downward for the third year in a row as the midnight Tuesday deadline approaches for the federal Affordable Care Act’s open-enrollment period.
It’s unclear whether the national recession and rise in unemployment connected with the COVID-19 pandemic will interrupt the four-year decline in enrollment by Illinoisans in federally subsidized and unsubsidized coverage on HealthCare.gov.
But a snapshot of signups from this point in the open-enrollment period compared to a similar point last year shows a 3.3% increase in daily average signups in Illinois, according to Stephani Becker, associate director for health care justice at the Chicago-based Shriver Center on Poverty Law.