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Background Information on Attorney General's Charity Care & Billing Proposals (2006)

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• Value of Community Benefits Provided by Illinois Hospitals (May 2008)
   
• Details of New Law (HB 4999) - Fair Patient Billing Act (1/10/07)
   
• In Support of Hospital Property Tax Exemption (11/7/06)
   
• Hospital Charity Care: Working Toward a Reasonable Approach (11/7/06)
   
• Suggested Hospital Talking Points (password required) (11/7/06)
   
• Transcript of Ken Robbins on WTTW's Chicago Tonight on Charity Care/Tax-Exemption (5/30/06)
   
• Selected News Clips on IHA's Feb. 7, 2006 Press Conference in Springfield
   
• IHA Press Release: Hospital Leaders Urge General Assembly to Reject Damaging Proposals on Charity Care and Billing (2/7/06)
   
• Editorials and News Stories
  - The Star: Health Care: How Much Charity is Enough (2/1/07)
  - Daily Southtown: Defining Charity (1/31/07)
  - Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: To Put it Charitably, Hospital Proposal Isn't Fair (6/7/06)
  - All Charity Care Should be Considered (Daily Herald, 6/3/06)
  - Naperville Sun: House Bill 5000 Shouldn't Pass (3/9/06)
  - Star Newspapers: Charity Bill Would Mean Hospital Hardship (3/5/06)
  - Daily Herald: Set Aside, for Now, Hospital Charity Bill (3/2/06)
  - Quincy Herald-Whig: Flawed Proposal: Legislation That Sets Charity Care Standards for Tax-Exempt Hospitals Should be Rejected (2/26/06)
  - Rockford Register Star - Hospitals Benefit Us in More Ways Than We Can Measure (2/17/06)
  - Chicago Tribune - Squeezing Hospitals (2/5/06)
  - Decatur Herald & Review Editorial (2/5/06)
  - Peoria Journal Star - When State Requires Charity, It's a Tax (2/12/06)

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