Illinois Epilepsy Action Network The Epilepsy Foundation supports comprehensive healthcare reform that will allow individuals to keep their current health insurance plans, end denials of coverage due to pre-existing conditions, and eliminate coverage limits. If you agree, contact your legislators before they return to Washington and let them know!
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network Health care reform is important for people with epilepsy in Illinois. Click the link below to read more about where we stand on the issue, then call your elected officials today!
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network So, the official word is in. Our state funding will continue...through December. Starting January 1, we'll have some new challenges. It's been a long trip, and it's not over yet. But thank you to everyone who has been (and will, we hope, continue to be) so vocal in supporting the work we do across Illinois. Your voices... ARE bring heard, and it's really appreciated.
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network And the answer is...we still don't know. It's now up to the Department of Human Services. They know what needs to be funded, as well as how much money they have. The question still remains: How will they decide to allocate that money? It could take as lon
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network Is today the day we finally learn what the State of Illinois has decided to do about funding for epilepsy services? Possibly...
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network Journalist Phillip Crivellone, the Chicago Healthcare Policy Examiner for Examiner.com, put together a really nice piece which gives a solid overview of the impact that Illinois' budget crisis may have on epilepsy services. Click the link below to read it.
Budget uncertainty in Illinois threatens epilepsy services by Chicago Healthcare Policy Examiner, Ph
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Fearing Illinois “doomsday” budget scenario will lead to drastic cuts, the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago is preparing to notify hundreds of clients that its individualized care programs ...
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network First, the good news: The state has a budget, and it seems to include social services funding. Now, the bad news: The overall funding level is much lower than it was last year, and it's still not exactly clear where the specific cuts will be made. We're n
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network When was the last time you called your Illinois State Senator or Representative? They're all at home until July 14th, but that doesn't mean you can't still make your voice heard. When they return to Springfield, they'll be starting over, trying to come up with a workable State budget. So let's make sure they know that ...funding for epilepsy services has an IMPORTANT place in that budget...Call today!
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The Illinois Epilepsy Action Network is dedicated to uniting and empowering those affected by epilepsy throughout the state of Illinois and nationwide, with the goals of raising public awareness of this ...
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network Today is D-Day: Deadline Day for the Illinois General Assembly to hammer out an agreement if Illinois is to have a new budget tomorrow. EPILEPSY SERVICES ARE STILL ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK. Take action NOW by calling your state legislators and telling them to REINSTATE SERVICES for people with epilepsy! Find your legislators' phone numbers at the link.
www.epilepsyillinois.org
The Illinois Epilepsy Action Network is dedicated to uniting and empowering those affected by epilepsy throughout the state of Illinois and nationwide, with the goals of raising public awareness of this ...
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network The Governor may have eased up his "Doomsday" rhetoric a bit, but we're not out of the woods. Epilepsy services are still viewed as dispensable and are still in SERIOUS danger of having their funding taken away. Let's keep letting our elected officials kn
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network Not sure where to send those "Letters to the Editor" in support of statewide epilepsy funding? This should help!
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network Not sure where to send those "Letters to the Editor" in support of statewide epilepsy funding? This should help!
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network Epilepsy services in Illinois are still on the chopping block, and time is running out! Want to help? Letters to the Editor of your local paper can inform the public, as well as help sway editorial boards toward supporting our cause. So let's get writing!
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network What, EXACTLY, will the budget cuts mean to Illinois epilepsy services? Download our Impact Paper (PDF) by clicking the link below.
www.epilepsyfoundation.org
Illinois Epilepsy Action Network Save our Services...Help send 10,000 signatures to the Governor and General Assembly!
www.thepetitionsite.com
Pass a Budget and New Revenue by July 1st that Provides Funding to Sustain Community Services (1696 signatures on petition)
