Vast majority of Illinois Medicaid expansion recipients aren’t working – INN

Seven of 10 able-bodied recipients of taxpayer-funded healthcare in Illinois say they don’t have jobs. “They’re taking dollars out of those state budgets that could go to people who don’t have the opportunity to work,” said Victoria Eardley, a research fellow with FGA and co-author of the study. “And now we find out that they’re not working.”