Last week, Governor Pritzker and Springfield Democrats took one of their most reckless steps yet in reshaping Illinois public health policy to fit their political agenda. Pritzker signed a bill that lets the Illinois Department of Public Health create its own vaccine rulebook separate from the CDC.
House Bill 767 forces state-regulated insurance plans to cover whatever vaccines IDPH recommends even if those recommendations contradict federal experts. It will also allow children as young as three to receive vaccines without a prescription and removed requirements that IDPH rely on CDC-affiliated experts. They traded long-standing scientific guardrails for a system run by political appointees.
I have been clear that I do not support expanding government-driven vaccine recommendations. These decisions belong between families and their personal doctors, not bureaucrats acting under political pressure.
Illinoisans deserve clarity and stability, not ideological experiments from a governor more focused on control than public confidence.
