Policy & Position Statements

Click on the links below to read policy and position statements passed by the ISPC Board of Directors, the ISPC membership, ISPC local groups, and ISPC committees.

Public comment on proposed federal "public charge" rule submitted to the Federal Register (November 17, 2018). 

Position statement on National Single-Payer Legislation (December 4, 2017)

Statement on Personal Needs Allowance (HB 2513 and SB 1405) (approved by ISPC Chicago May 11, 2017)

Statement: ISPC Chicago Statement on a Chicago Task Force on Employment of People with Disabilities (March 9, 2017)

Position Statement: "ISPC Position Statement on Fair Taxation and Just Fiscal Policy" (ISPC Chicago, October 13, 2016; ISPC Board, October 17, 2016)

Statement from ISPC Chicago to Chicago Public Schools re Special Education Budget cuts (August 11, 2016)

Position statement: "Single-payer health care and public health care delivery" (ISPC membership, June 21, 2014)

Position Statement on the Trans Pacific Partnership (ISPC Board; February 7, 2014)

Petition: Governor Pat Quinn: Don't cut Illinois' Medicaid budget (ISPC Board; May 2012)

Joint Statement supporting home and community based services (ISPC Chicago; February 2012)

Letter to American Medical Association in support of Unite Here (ISPC Chicago; September 2011)

Position Statement on South Side Trauma Center (ISPC Chicago; August 2011)

Testimony to Illinois legislature opposing privatization of Medicaid (ISPC and PNHP Illinois; January 2011)

Position Statement on the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ISPC; October 2010)

Position Statement on Medicaid managed care and racial disparities in muscular dystrophy survival (ISPC; September 2010)

Action Alert: Support Illinois HB 5113 (ISPC; March 2010)