Two lawmakers have proposed legislation to change what’s known as the Medicaid hospital assessment program, which sets aside an estimated $3.6 billion to help reimburse hospitals that care for patients who can not afford expensive hospital stays.
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.
“A group of Illinois lawmakers and health care advocates want the state to more equitably provide money for low income hospital patients.”
There’s that word ‘equitably’ again, that crony word that lets other people decide what is ‘equitable’ as they pick your pocket.