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Experts: Cost, health care coverage among reasons By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Nearly two in three adults who live in McHenry County’s heavily populated southeast corner who are eligible to purchase health insurance through the Affordable Health Care Marketplace have not done so, according to data. Data from The Kaiser Family Foundation, a California-based nonprofit organization that focuses on national health care issues, shows that only 35 percent of marketplace-eligible people living in Algonquin, Nunda and McHenry townships signed up for coverage this year. An analysis of the foundation’s data by Health and Disability Advocates, a Chicago-based think tank that promotes health and economic security for
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Do you have health insurance? Vote online at NWHerald.com. low-income families and other vulnerable groups, estimates that 10,625 eligible people are currently uninsured. Furthermore, the group concluded, the area has the third-highest number of marketplace-eligible uninsured in the state. The three-township area, which includes Crystal Lake, Lake in the Hills, Algonquin, Cary, Fox River Grove, Prairie Grove, McHenry and Johnsburg, is a defined U.S. Census unit for statistical and demographic information. But this doesn’t mean the McHenry County area is
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Despite voting no, township merger not a dead issue
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Board committee to take up issue as soon as Oct. 29 By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The question of whether taxpayers would benefit from township consolidation is not a dead issue to some on the McHenry County Board, despite its rejection of referendums to consolidate them. A last-minute proposal to commission an outside study to examine the impact of consolidation was kicked to committee before the board’s Oct. 6 vote to reject putting referendums on the March ballot to reduce the
number of townships from 17 to eight. The Finance and Audit Committee, which is led by the board member who floated the idea, will take up the issue at a future meeting. Chairman Mike Skala, R-Huntley, said he wanted to make sure voters had the information they needed to make an inMike Skala formed decision – something he and other members who voted against the referendums said was sorely lacking from the proponents of the idea.
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