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Governor Asks IL Businesses to Push for Pension and Medicaid Changes
From WUIS: Governor Pat Quinn is urging business owners to support his plans for overhauling state employee pensions and Medicaid. He spoke to a gathering of Illinois manufacturers and retailers in Springfield…Mark Denzler is vice president of the Illinois Manufacturer’s Association. “Well Illinois businesses want to operate in state that’s not bankrupt, that’s not on the edge of a fiscal abyss. So it’s important that the state of Illinois, the Governor and General Assembly address pensions and Medicaid which are spiraling out of control, so we applaud the Governor’s message for fiscal restraint, for reforming pensions and Medicaid, and we think it’s a movement in the right direction.” It’s unclear if lawmakers will keep going in that direction, however. TO READ MORE …
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Prairie States Enterprises

DateMonday, January 3, 2011 at 7:17PM

The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association has partnered with Prairie States Enterprises as its preferred third-party health administrator. IMA member companies could see health care cost savings of more than 10 percent. Prairie States is a TPA that oversees health benefit programs for self-insured companies and includes Optimal Health, a wellness program with one-on-one coaching that has proven to improve workers’ lifestyle behaviors and reduce medical claims.

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