New federal rules will impose tighter caps on how much money states can raise for their Medicaid programs through provider taxes; In Illinois, those taxes pay more than one-third of the state’s share. The new limits, starting in Fiscal Year 2028, and could reduce total Medicaid funding in Illinois by $4.5 billion a year by Fiscal Year 2031.
Maybe IL needs to clean up the Medicaid rolls and remove people who should not qualify. But I guess that’s what “Get Covered IL” is for- to bypass Medicaid to cover and subsidize those who don’t qualify?
Riverbender
4 months ago
Pritzker has spent over a billion dollars on medicaid funding for illegal aliens that should have instead been spent for the benefit of Illinois citizens health care, education and lowering property taxes. Unhappy with your property tax bill; blame Pritzker and his beloved illegals.
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.
Maybe IL needs to clean up the Medicaid rolls and remove people who should not qualify. But I guess that’s what “Get Covered IL” is for- to bypass Medicaid to cover and subsidize those who don’t qualify?
Pritzker has spent over a billion dollars on medicaid funding for illegal aliens that should have instead been spent for the benefit of Illinois citizens health care, education and lowering property taxes. Unhappy with your property tax bill; blame Pritzker and his beloved illegals.