Healthcare professionals shared powerful stories of how these proposed cuts would devastate Illinois families—forcing patients to lose coverage, driving healthcare costs higher, and pushing rural hospitals and clinics to the brink of closure. They also called out how Republican leaders, instead of working to prevent a government shutdown, pushed a reckless agenda that would:

• Dramatically increase health care costs
• Cause millions of Americans to lose coverage
• Threaten rural health care providers across Southern Illinois
• Halt life-saving medical research into diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s

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