Cardinal, Vallas vow to boost uninsured by 500,000

Cardinal, Vallas vow to boost uninsured by 500,000

With the number of Black uninsured persons increasing 72 percent since 1995, Cardinal Francis George, CPS CEO Paul Vallas and health officials Thursday pledged to team up and reduce that number by 500,000 over the next three-years.

And, to help make this goal a reality, Gov. Ryan, executives from the Advocate Health Care, the Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the Metropolitan Chicago Health Care Council member hospitals, and the federal government and other civil, committed $2 million to the Gilead Center which will connect medically uninsured adults and children to health insurance programs for which they are already …