. . "The Health Care Justice Act (HCJA) was a law in Illinois that sought \"to insure that all residents have access to quality health care at costs that are affordable\". The Health Care Justice Campaign (a project of Campaign for Better Health Care) led public advocacy for the act, which was passed after a two-year fight and took effect on July 1, 2004. In the state legislature, the act was spearheaded by the chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, Barack Obama."@en . . . "repealed"@en . "The Health Care Justice Act (HCJA) was a law in Illinois that sought \"to insure that all residents have access to quality health care at costs that are affordable\". The Health Care Justice Campaign (a project of Campaign for Better Health Care) led public advocacy for the act, which was passed after a two-year fight and took effect on July 1, 2004. In the state legislature, the act was spearheaded by the chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, Barack Obama. While originally intended to establish single-payer healthcare in the state, the act's ultimate form was more modest. The act created a task force and \"strongly encouraged\" the Illinois General Assembly to implement a health care access plan by July 1, 2007, that would meet eight objectives including providing access to a full range of healthcare services, maintaining and improving healthcare quality, and providing \"portability of coverage, regardless of employment status\". The struggle to pass the HCJA prefigured many of the struggles over federal healthcare reform later in the decade.In particular, supporters and opponents regarded the struggle over the HCJA as foreshadowing the struggle over the federal Affordable Care Act during the Obama presidency. The struggle over implementing the task force recommendations figured in the governor's impeachment in 2009. After the federal Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, the General Assembly repealed the HCJA and created the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange."@en . . . . . . . "HB 2268"@en . "Illinois"@en . . . "Health Care Justice Act"@en . . . . "Health Care Justice Act"@en . . . . . . "2004-08-20"^^ . . . "1100860461"^^ . "2003-02-19"^^ . . "2003-04-01"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Illinois Compiled Statutes"@en . . "2004-05-19"^^ . . "19990"^^ . . "9508123"^^ . . . . . . . . . .