The Department of Healthcare and Family Services estimated at least 6,000 people will lose coverage come May 1. During a Joint Committee on Administrative Rules meeting Tuesday, Healthcare and Family Services chief of staff Dana Kelly reportedly told lawmakers the state would save more than $13 million by cutting out ineligible recipients.
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.