Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
After private pay and Worker’s Compensation, employers with insurance or self-funded plans pay hospitals and providers far more money for any particular service than Medicaid and Medicare does. So to reward employers, their second biggest source of revenue (after Medicare) the hospitals and providers are now going to steal the rebates the people who actually pay for the drugs are earning and using to defray the extraordinary costs of health care in Illinois. Be warned: You are biting the hand that feeds you and you will pay. Think how happy you will be when your #2 revenue source drops to… Read more »