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In a followup email earlier this month, Eagleson’s top spokeswoman said, “purely as a snapshot in time, initial incomplete figures indicate HFS would recoup over $120 million” from the insurance firms for calendar year 2020. Those funds will come through a program called a “risk corridor” that reallocates money if the companies exceed or fall short of targets for medical care. “Illinois was one of the first states in the country to implement risk corridors during the pandemic to further restrict possible profit margins,” said Jamie Munks, Eagleson’s spokeswoman. “We will rec...

The state remains mum on when it will reopen much-needed programs that offer therapy, socialization and learning to people with disabilities. The programs, closed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, are causing health and cognitive conditions to deteriorate in the people who need them, families and advocates said. It has been weeks since the Centers for Disease Control released guidelines for the reopening of the programs, but the New Jersey Department of Human Services Division of Developmental Disability has only offered “words of assurance” that it is trying to upda...

N.J.’s lockdown on programs for disabled people must end now, families say Updated 3:02 PM; Today 8:30 AM Kelly Reagan, right, at a Christmas party with Becky Chaplin, a social worker at the Ladacin day program in Ocean Township in 2017. Reagan is declining mentally and emotionally because day programs have been shut for most of the past 13 months , her mother, Marianne says. Facebook Share Aided by vaccines, mandatory mask-wearing and social distancing, the Murphy administration this year has gradually relaxed restrictions on nursing homes visits, attendance at weddings and sporting even...

this morning my question, is a polar vortex a real thing? plus hip-hop goes to north korea. and the schoolyard fight between a conservative congressman and the new champion of the left. but first the most talked about traffic jam in the country. good morning. i'm melissa harris-perry. it's both the most universal and mundane of human experiences for people living in and around the country's major metropolitan areas, the morning commute. and for drivers it can become a dreaded dachbly slog all because of a bayne of a driver's existence, traffic. that's where drivers spend 3 rkds 800 h...