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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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In my downstate area many of the really good doctors have headed across the state line because of malpractice insurance costs. Another benefit the Democrat trial lawyers have showered upon us.
Have you tried to get an appointment with a specialist in Cook County lately? Last summer I made an appointment to see a dermatologist … for August 2023.
So many specialists have taken their talent and training out of the state because of the insane cost of malpractice insurance which is fueled by trial lawyers.
More B.S. Instead, let them become the best medical practitioners they can, without the wokester indoctrination. We need medical competency! A friend works in the medical field in Washington state and the nonsense they have to put up with is absurd. For instance, a couple came in who claimed to share the same spirit and insisted on being CT’d together, an intact transgender male took umbrage when a technician asked if s/he could be pregnant, and a colleague was put on probation for using the wrong pronoun. The relationship with patients is strained because of the prospect of possibly inadvertently… Read more »
I’m coming around to the theory that the modern United States is an open air insane asylum, and interacting with crazy people all day makes it that much harder to be sane.
Hmm, doc I suffer from cultural incompetence….can you help me?
Competent health professionals are in short supply and are overworked as it is. Doctors spend too much time already sorting out services into procedure codes in order to get insurance payments. The patients need to deal with the system we have — imperfect though it may be Those who are hypersensitive to slights need to find a psychologist to desensitize them. Relax and join the melting pot. This seems like a scam to find paid consulting opportunities for social workers with nothing useful to do.
Excellent comment. These large conglomerates are destroying healthcare in Illinois. It is terrible what they are doing to doctors. They can no longer care for their patients in the way they once did. Also, we need tort reform, NOW!