1.0 link 143254 <![CDATA[State Health Care Program Halted]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/12/state-health-care-program_n_143254.html The Blagojevich administration has stopped payment on most state-subsidized health care, asking a judge to clarify his order to shut down an illegal expansion of the FamilyCare program.

Court documents indicate state reimbursement to doctors treating more than 500,000 FamilyCare patients stopped Oct. 15, the day Cook County Circuit Judge James R. Epstein ordered the administration to halt an expansion of the program to people with higher incomes.

The documents also indicate that as many as 25,000 people continued to receive taxpayer-subsidized...

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