Employers have begun to step back from paying first-dollar coverage, and it's having an impact upon the uninsured.

They've been distracted with the minimum wage, the water issue, so I didn't want to bug them about it. But we can't wait for this.

We're obviously anxiously awaiting it and we really can't make everything work until we have the state money. We have had discussions with both the House and Senate and with Shirley Johnson and we've been led to believe they're going to try to make it happen.

It's spreading nationally. That, I think, is George Ryan's legacy. This is where it started and that's his contribution.

We tried to collapse on her and push out of the paint.

Life is a state of mind.