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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Illinois Medicaid=Pay Centene. Centene=Pritzker Trust big investment just prior to big Illinois commitment to Centene. (This contorted Pritzker gerrymander of ‘clients’, to facilitate a Centene merger deal, kicked my blind/deaf friend into MMAI limbo causing great personal distress. She was not the only one. There IS a human cost to Pritzker-esque behavior). Centene =capitation per head. Illegal immigrants= many new headcount to be capitated. Centene DOES NOT EQUAL actual medical care provision. Centene is a financial contract that takes money from State, and then… Do your own research. Ask actual MMAI or Medicaid recipients if they have problems finding ‘in-network’… Read more »
“Defray costs” by chartering buses, and send new migrants onward to Washington DC, c/o Biden’s White House front lawn. Let Biden administration personally experience full impact of this dangerous immigration policy and absolute lack of federal accountability for results thereof. Only “pawns” in this discussion are taxpayers laden with the cost of hosting these unlawful-entry migrants “rewarded” with lots of taxpayer-provided free stuff: housing, food, healthcare, new cell phones (displaying their 2026-2027 immigration court dates), free transport, free entertainment, free clothes, etc. Now think of all the vendors charging Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois for “services rendered” in regards to… Read more »
I really don’t feel sorry for current Chicagoans. They voted (or didn’t) for these people who are giving away the farm while keeping the outhouse. Remember when LLL, Pigster and the like crowed about Illinois being a sanctuary city and state? Now they’re crying like babies for federal help, of which none is coming. Deal with it!
The bill was originally for Illegal immigrants over 65 not eligible for Medicaid. I was quietly expanded to persons age 42 and up and the costs have predictably exploded. Typical Illinois. Even Massachusetts Dems are pushing tax cuts!!
Sanctuary State Democrats Shit The Bed — And Now They Are Getting The Laundry Bill
Pritzker’s dung heap gets larger. We know the answer – Defer pension payments to pay for illegals free healthcare. I’m sure the unions will be ok.
What exactly is the extent of the healthcare? Is it checking their temperature with a forehead thermometer or does every border jumper get a liver transplant?
Is the healthcare more extensive than the citizens get from Medicaid?
Most of the cost comes from poor, old people with chronic conditions, illegals who’ve been here decades and refuse to Go Back Home. Pregnancy and pre-natal healthcare is also a driver of costs. The illegal comes here, gets preggo with the anchor baby, runs up $75k in pre-natal health care because of the poor health condition of the mother, likely being overweight, with high blood pressure and other co-comorbidities.
The estimated cost for Illinois to continue providing health care coverage to noncitizens who are otherwise ineligible for Medicaid benefits has been revised upward to $1.1 billion for the upcoming fiscal year. As of the end of March, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services estimated it would cost $990 million to fund the program that provides state-funded health care to individuals age 42 and older who would otherwise qualify for Medicaid if not for their citizenship status. The new estimate, shared by IDHFS Director Theresa Eagleson in testimony to a Senate appropriations committee Wednesday night, is now $880 million… Read more »
What a hoot! Pritzker’s solution to Illinois not having the money to continue paying for illegal immigrant health care is to ask the legislature to consider charging “some classes” of the illegal immigrants a co-pay of some amount, and for the legislature to require Big Hospital, Big Doc and Big Pharm to accept payments of less than what they would normally receive for Medicaid patients. Off course Pritzker asks this knowing full well that neither the Democrats in the House or Senate would ever approve either of those two options. No suggestion that we just stop paying for illegal immigrant… Read more »
Naturally of course then the providers will charge more to those that do pay tp cover the costs of Pritzker’s darlings meaning health care will rise for the ones that pay. Once again another hidden tax of living in Illinois raises its head.