{"id":8,"date":"2017-02-07T02:39:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T02:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.87.166.154\/ProtectOurCareIL\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:38:40","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.protectourcareil.org\/index.php\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Protect Our Care \u2013 Illinois is a statewide coalition of health care advocates, providers, and consumers joining together to protect and defend Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Protect Our Care \u2013 Illinois invites you to join Illinoisans across the state to defend access to quality affordable health care for all.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/TcE87Cs9pRfPoqnp6\" class=\"stag-button stag-button--large stag-button--red stag-button--normal\">Sign your organization on to the coalition<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Members<\/h2>\n<table class=\"tableizer-table\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">A Just Harvest<br \/>\nACA Consumer Advocacy<br \/>\nAccess Living<br \/>\nAge Options<br \/>\nAIDS Foundation of Chicago<br \/>\nAmerican Cancer Society Cancer Action Network<br \/>\nAmerican Heart Association<br \/>\nCenter on Halsted<br \/>\nChampaign County Health Care Consumers<br \/>\nChicago Coalition to End Homelessness<br \/>\nChicago Women Take Action<br \/>\nChildren&#8217;s Place Association<br \/>\nCIR\/SEIU<br \/>\nCitizen Action\/Illinois<br \/>\nCommittee to Protect Health Care<br \/>\nCommittee of Inerns and Residents &#8211; SEIU<br \/>\nCommunity Organizing and Family Issues\/POWER-PAC IL<br \/>\nCook County Health and Hospital System<br \/>\nEverThrive Illinois<br \/>\nForefront<br \/>\nGraceful Therapy, PLLC<br \/>\nGreater Chicago Coalition of the National Fragile X Foundation<br \/>\nGreater Chicago Food Depository<br \/>\nHealth Care Council of Chicago (HC3)<br \/>\nHealthy and Medicine Policy Research Group<br \/>\nHealthy Illinois Campaign<br \/>\nHolistic Healing Source for Marginalized Society<br \/>\nICAN!<br \/>\nIL Chapter NAPNAP<br \/>\nIllinois Alliance for Retired Americans<br \/>\nIllinois Association of Area Agencies on Aging<br \/>\nIllinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics<br \/>\nIllinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">Illinois Collaboration on Youth<br \/>\nIllinois Council on Developmental Disabilities<br \/>\nIllinois Head Start Association<br \/>\nIllinois Parents of Adults with Developmental Disabilities United<br \/>\nIllinois Partners for Human Services<br \/>\nIllinois Public Health Institute<br \/>\nIndivisible Chicago Alliance<br \/>\nInfrastructure Strategies<br \/>\nJCFS Chicago<br \/>\nJewish United Fund<br \/>\nLegal Council for Health Justice<br \/>\nMiMedico<br \/>\nMutual Ground, Inc<br \/>\nNAMI Chicago<br \/>\nNAMI Illinois<br \/>\nNational Council of Jewish Women<br \/>\nNational Council of Latinxs with Disabilities<br \/>\nNew Moms<br \/>\nNorth Central Behavioral Health Systems<br \/>\nNorthern Illinois Food Bank<br \/>\nPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers\/Planned Parenthood Great Rivers Action<br \/>\nPlanned Parenthood of Illinois<br \/>\nRoseland Community Hospital<br \/>\nSHALVA<br \/>\nShriver Center on Poverty Law<br \/>\nStart Early<br \/>\nSupportive Housing Providers Association (SHPA)<br \/>\nSVP Family and Community Services<br \/>\nTASC<br \/>\nThe Network: Adovcating Against Domestic Violence<br \/>\nThe People&#8217;s Lobby<br \/>\nThresholds<br \/>\nTrilogy, Inc<br \/>\nVivent Health<br \/>\nWorkers Center for Racial Justice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protect Our Care \u2013 Illinois is a statewide coalition of health care advocates, providers, and consumers joining together to protect and defend Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. 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