While Wisconsin grapples with how to provide health care to more than 500,000 of its residents who do not have health insurance, Illinois is pondering a new proposal to address its uninsured population.
Following the lead of California and Massachusetts, Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich has called health insurance a "fundamental civil right" and announced Sunday a new IllinoisCovered plan.
The plan would cover the estimated 1.4 million uninsured adults in the Illinois. The plan would cost an estimated $2.1 billion annually and would be paid for by new across-the-board taxes on business transactions.
To read a physician's viewpoint about the plan, visit Midwest Business.com, a media partner of SBT.
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