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The coalition estimates it would cost $202 million to expand the program to cover adults age 19 to 42, while the state projects a $380 million cost in the first year. But the estimate for the existing program, which provides state-funded health insurance to immigrants 42 and over who are in the country without legal permission, has grown to $1.1 billion — a fivefold increase from the $220 million the state projected in February — and already threatens to blow a hole in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s $49.6 billion proposal for the budget year that begins July 1.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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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Not to worry, the state will be able to afford this once they cap salaries of health care providers, which will lower the cost of providing care. My estimation is a salary cap of 2X the median income in IL (about $60K) should allow everyone to obtain healthcare at a reasonable cost.
that could happen and in addition the State could start delaying payments as well. I live close to the border and man of the good doctors have jumped across the State line to avoid dealing with Illinois problems as it is and those remaining don’t take Medicaid. Remember though hospitals can not refuse Medicaid so plan on the ERs becoming more clogged than they are. Hospitals will have to raise their rates to cover the new influx and the cycle goes on
Let’s see … spend years in school, spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars that it will take decades to repay in order to work for $60K a year?
Illinois medical specialists are becoming a rare commodity – start controlling their revenue and they’ll be as rare as hen’s teeth.
Specialists are joining hospital systems and setting up fancy offices in rich areas with low numbers of medicaid patients.
They act like this is normal. When my daughter went to Europe for one college semester she had to do way more than any of the illegals coming here and that was just to stay there for four months. She had to get a prepaid health insurance policy (must cover mental health) and had to send evidence that she had $5,000 in a checking/savings with her name on it, not your parents account.
When all these people are entitled to state funded insurance what’s that going to do to the wait list if you want to see a specialist?
The specialists won’t be taking medicaid. Years back, my kid’s pediatricians had a big sign, huge, on the reception desk, said, “We no longer accept medicaid patients”. This office was on the NW side of Chicago too, not some far flung suburb. The only specialists available to these medicaid patients will be hospital systems in working class areas, with long wait times.
Not to mention, she would also be required to immediately register at the nearest police station, and also show that she had proof of a return ticket to the US… legal niceties that “our” illegals here do not have to adhere to…
Goose, my wet dream is two life long Democratic voters in the emergency waiting room with life treating conditions. One is prominent like Jessy Sharkey for example. The other Dem voter is a regular Chicago city worker. The hospital is overwhelmed with “migrants” and triage is being done to manage the situation.
They both expire simultaneously while being in the queue.
Another reason to stack…..
Send their medical bills to Mexico
Well, of course that would only be fair, that Illinois legal residents receive same benefits as undocumented migrants without Green Card status. Oops, did I say something wrong?
Actually, they’re getting more. Because there are income limits to medicaid. Illegal immigrants can’t legally hold jobs so they show *no* income and thus qualify for medicaid. No illegal immigrant will put on the application “I make $30,000 a year under the table in cash that I don’t report to the IRS”. The answer to income will always be $0. But you, the native salaried worker, making $19.00 an hour doing customer service, you make too much to qualify for medicaid, so you must pay $400 a month out of your paychecks to pay for private insurance, with high deductibles… Read more »
During the late 50’s and early 60’s, I heard and saw advertising on radio and TV near the end of each year reminding aliens that it was mandatory for them to report their location as well as employment status to INS by the end of January, GOP and Dems both worked for the good of our citizens. Truly the Democratic Party now is the Communist Party!
The geography of the U.S. and Central America has not changed. We’ve had this border for about 150 years. If the narrative is correct, these people are walking through Central America and crossing the Rio Grande. That was always possible, even 150 years ago. Growing up in the 60’s, and in my young adulthood in the early 70’s, there was not much talk of illegal immigration. People came, and most assimilated into American life. There were no hordes of people crossing the border. So what changed? Why do we now have such a problem? Seems like it started with the… Read more »
What happened is that immigration begets immigration, as family members encourage more people to immigrate. The only way to stop it is to stop it. But our government has been encouraging additional immigration because they are trying to gain a forever democrat majority. They’ve said as much out loud.
And we continue to give the Illegals free necessities and fund the NGO’s that provide them the tickets to the US.
What do you think would happen to us if we went to their countries and demanded healthcare/food stamps/housing/etc?
If they demand healthcare let’s check their temperature with a forehead thermometer and give them a baby aspirin. Tell them that’s all there is. If they want more send them to Canada.