“It’s breathtaking the scale of the cut,” said Carrie Chapman, deputy director of program and policy at the Legal Council for Health Justice, which provides legal services to low-income people in Illinois who need access to health care. “It’s certainly really concerning for the health and well-being of Illinoisans to be looking at a cut of this magnitude.”

Illinois Health and Hospital Association President and CEO AJ Wilhelmi said in a statement Thursday that the bill “will have devastating consequences for Illinois hospitals and their patients.”

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