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As one of six private health insurers administering Medicaid benefits to beneficiaries in Illinois, CountyCare is required by the state to pay claims within 30 days. But as of Feb. 9, the health plan was more than 90 days behind schedule for claims that have been received but not paid. The culprit: Late payments from the state and the county.
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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Preckwinkle & cc dem machine was so quick to discredit Inspector Blanchard’s report about all the astronomical $ millions $ CC–county care was a in debt. but maybe Preckwinkle taking over board is further attempt to mask reality that Blanchard report does in fact have legs.
Toni Taxwinkkle and most other Democrat Socialist Progresives think that doctors are paid too much so they will keep running up a tab and then eventually stiff the Doctors. That way they will get to set the Doctor’s pay to be what they think that it ought to be. In the mind of “Progressives” anyone who is successful or “wealthy” owes the US society for their prosperity and success and they will extract whatever amount of charity that they see as appropriate from you. “You didn’t build that”.
Doctors are a primary target of the Fair Tax. Not sure how they’re going to pay it if we’re not paying them.
Government run healthcare is better than private insurance! Medicaid for All! Oh wait, you mean Countycare is government run healthcare?