Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Want, want , want and never give. These are incompetent, uneducated, ignorant , community activists who have no clue. The constant shooting costs with no insurance have destroyed most inner city hospital budgets but the idiot coalition doesn’t get it. They deserve no voice in anything.
Maybe Chicago Health Equity Coalition should present an offer to buy Mercy Hospital. If they buy it, they can then run it however they would like. Until then, they have no standing in the matter.
Chicago Health Equity Coalition is just like your typical politician, never ran a business and has no understanding of economics but thinks they should make business decisions.
It’s for sale for a dollar. If they want to run it their way, they can buy it if every organization in the coalition chips in a dime or a quarter. More likely, a new buyer will try to turn it into a limited specialty hospital for neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery, close the ER, close the clinics, and recruit well known neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons to bring their cases there. Chicagoland has not had much if any specialty hospital setups, but other states have them. Orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, and heart work are profitable lines of business. Such specialty hospitals as… Read more »