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Bill to end Medicaid managed care advances in House   Updated 1/11/2021 5:11 PM SPRINGFIELD -- A House committee on Monday advanced a bill that would end the system of hiring private insurance companies to manage the state's Medicaid program at the end of their current contracts and replace it with a standard fee-for-service payment system. The bill also calls for a three-year moratorium on any hospital closures or downsizing.   However, it is expected that further amendments to the bill are being drafted, and it was unclear Monday whether a final version could be approved by both...

*On Friday (01-08-21), Civil Rights Icon and President of The Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. was administered a dose of Pfizer’s BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago, IL. Rev. Jackson was accompanied by Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, an immunologist at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and is one of the lead scientists who developed the COVID-19 vaccine. In addition, Dr. Corbett conducts basic and preclinical research and worked on the pre-clinical development of the mRNA-1273 vaccine against COVID-19. As par...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Rev. Jesse Jackson, 79, got his first dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Friday. Many in the healthcare community hope the image of Rev. Jackson receiving the shot will encourage more people in black and brown communities to follow his lead. "Take the vaccination now. Keep hope alive," Rev. Jackson said. "It's absolutely, symbolically, massively important to show one of the greatest African American leaders in history, that he's willing to get the vaccine, and he wants to inspire his people to come out and get the vaccine as well," said Tim Egan, Roseland Hospital CEO. Hospita...

Dr. Kizzmekia “Kizzy” Corbett, the Black woman who co-led the National Institutes of Health team that discovered Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, lends a supportive hand Friday as the Rev. Jesse Jackson receives the vaccine from Roseland Community Hospital physician Kiran Chekka. It’s part of efforts by Black community leaders to battle distrust of the vaccine in that community. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times In the monumental effort to build Black community trust of the coronavirus vaccine, the Rev. Jesse Jackson rolled up his sleeve. Famous viral immunologist Dr. Kizzmekia “Kizzy” Corbett p...

Accompanied by an African American scientist at the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine development, the Rev. Jesse Jackson got his vaccine against the virus Friday at Roseland Community Hospital and praised the safety of the immunization.