SR0584 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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SENATE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Half a million Illinoisans depend on the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplace to provide healthcare for their families; and

WHEREAS, The affordable insurance options available on the Get Covered Illinois marketplace have offered peace of mind to small business owners, self-employed entrepreneurs, independent contractors, individuals balancing work and education, and people working part-time jobs; and

WHEREAS, Federal subsidies created through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 kept health insurance accessible, even as household budgets were strained by many other rising costs; and

WHEREAS, As a key deadline to extend these cost-saving subsidies approaches, President Donald Trump stated: "I don't want to extend them for two years. I'd rather not extend them at all."; and

WHEREAS, Despite bipartisan support for these subsidies, President Trump and Republican leaders allowed them to expire on January 1, 2026; and

WHEREAS, Customers on Get Covered Illinois and other insurance marketplaces are now facing massive increases in their insurance costs, with many seeing premiums more than double and deductibles rising by as much as $10,000 per person; and

WHEREAS, The Keiser Family Foundation calculates that Illinois will be among the states most grievously impacted by Trump's actions, taking an average of $927 per year out of people's pockets; and

WHEREAS, Rural and downstate communities are even more negatively impacted, costing residents of Darrin LaHood's 16th Congressional District more than $1,400, costing residents of Mary Miller's 15th Congressional District more than $1,500, and costing residents of Mike Bost's 12th District more than $2,000 every year; and

WHEREAS, Up to 140,000 Illinoisans will no longer be able to afford their health insurance because of Donald Trump's actions, on top of the hundreds of thousands who will lose access to Medicaid because of Trump's cuts; and

WHEREAS, The Trump tax bill will give more than $100 billion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and corporations, and working families have repeatedly been forced to pay the bill with cuts to care, cuts to programs, and higher insurance costs; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we call on Congress to end the Trump healthcare affordability crisis by immediately reinstating the 2022 healthcare subsidies.