Every Illinoisan deserves access to affordable quality health care close to home, including medication. That’s why I fully support legislation in Springfield that protects the federal 340B drug discount program — a program that helps hospitals and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) stretch endemically scarce resources for vulnerable patients and communities. This program is even more important today than it was last spring, as hospitals and FQHCs face extreme distress from federal Medicaid cuts and drastic changes to the hospital assessment program in HR1 .

Media recently have portrayed 340B as a “profit machine” for hospitals, which is simply untrue. The 340B program allows hospitals that serve high numbers of Medicaid and uninsured patients to purchase outpatient drugs at a di

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