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.
Not to worry, the medical profession has been devoured by finance people such as DuPage Medical, now DULY. The book keepers will squeeze every possible dime. The doctors hate it , the nurses and lab people hate it. You the patient soon learn to hate it. Porky probably clears all medical business related decisions with big medical conglomerates. They make donations too. Not that Porky cares, he simply wants expert support!
Illinois healthcare professionals are burned out and leaving the medical profession because: 1. Illinois public school teachers are compensated roughly double nurses’ compensation (and school admins are compensated more per hour worked than doctors). 2. Teachers retire at 55 (vested after 20 years) with lifetime retirement pay equal or greater than that which working nurses earn. 3. Medical professionals must pay their own insurance premiums, attached to jobs, while teachers get free platinum health insurance at taxpayer expense beginning age 55. 4. Teachers work fewer hours, demand to “work” from home, and suffer almost no personal risk of personal health… Read more »
This is an error in what you are saying as regards public teacher retirees in IL at least. Such retirees do not receive free health insurance, although it is partially subsidized. Most of the cost is borne by the individual retiree. Perhap that’s not true, though, where the retiree’s annuity is significantly less than average.
Does this include his Laparoscopic gastric banding surgery?
Allow the hospital managers to determine what steps need to be taken.
Exactly, Pritzker needs to keep his nose out of private enterprise.