Lawmakers criticize Pritzker administration’s handling of noncitizen health care limits – Capitol News IL

Sen. Cristina Castro, an Elgin Democrat and member of the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus, said that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services failed to consult stakeholders in the immigrant advocacy community when developing the rules. On the Republican side, Rep. Steven Reick said that the rules represented an “abdication” of the General Assembly's responsibility and that they should have been considered in legislation, not in administrative policy.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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.

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