“The state has been able to obtain additional federal funding for the Medicaid program, which they are sending to hospitals," said Danny Chun, a spokesman for the Illinois Health and Hospital Association. Even before the coronavirus, more than 40% of Illinois hospitals were operating in the red or struggling to break even.
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.