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 [1] on proposed federal "public charge" rule submitted to the Federal Register (November 17, 2018).
Position statement [2] on National Single-Payer Legislation (December 4, 2017)
Statement [3] on Personal Needs Allowance (HB 2513 and SB 1405) (approved by ISPC Chicago May 11, 2017)
Statemen [4]t: ISPC Chicago Statement on a Chicago Task Force on Employment of People with Disabilities (March 9, 2017)
Position Statement [5]: "ISPC Position Statement on Fair Taxation and Just Fiscal Policy" (ISPC Chicago, October 13, 2016; ISPC Board, October 17, 2016)
Statement [6] from ISPC Chicago to Chicago Public Schools re Special Education Budget cuts (August 11, 2016)
Position statement [7]: "Single-payer health care and public health care delivery" (ISPC membership, June 21, 2014)
Position Statement [8] on the Trans Pacific Partnership (ISPC Board; February 7, 2014)
Petition [9]: Governor Pat Quinn: Don't cut Illinois' Medicaid budget (ISPC Board; May 2012)
Joint Statement [10] supporting home and community based services (ISPC Chicago; February 2012)
Letter [11]to American Medical Association in support of Unite Here (ISPC Chicago; September 2011)
Position Statement [12] on South Side Trauma Center (ISPC Chicago; August 2011)
Testimony [13]to Illinois legislature opposing privatization of Medicaid (ISPC and PNHP Illinois; January 2011)
Position Statement [14] on the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ISPC; October 2010)
Position Statement [15] on Medicaid managed care and racial disparities in muscular dystrophy survival (ISPC; September 2010)
Action Alert [16]: Support Illinois HB 5113 (ISPC; March 2010)