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TexasTowelie

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Mon Oct 16, 2017, 07:01 AM Oct 2017

Rauner vetoes Medicaid purchase plan as duplicative [View all]

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed legislation that would require a more rigorous competitive search for managed-care organizations to administer health care for the Medicaid population.

The Republican governor said in a veto message Friday that his administration did conduct a five-month “competitive, transparent process.”

Rauner plans to shift hundreds of thousands of Medicaid patients to managed-care organizations. The Democratic comptroller’s office says they will cost $27 billion through 2021.

Democrats say the contracts should be put through the stiffer Illinois Procurement Code process.

Read more: http://rockrivertimes.com/2017/10/14/rauner-vetoes-medicaid-purchase-plan-as-duplicative/

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