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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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Fire good employees who declined the vax, then complain about the inability to hire qualified people…
Of course their solution is a total government take over of healthcare…
Typical marxist – create the problem, the make it worse, then cry about how bad it is & that only the *government* can fix it…
“No one wants to work for us. Certainly the problem isn’t us.”
The fascist threat of jab or job would obliverate any hope of your employees having morale or care to work hard, care at all, be creative, productive, proactive, etc. After the jab or job fiasco I know my attitude towards my company would be… “now I’m gonna take them for everything they’ve got”. Ill continually say “I’m not safe” then get to WFH all the time, if they want these rules for masks and vax and quarantine, then ill follow them to the letter and take whatever I can get, F’ em. Now the next shoe to drop will be… Read more »
Fortunately for Cook County Health, the capitation rates paid by Illinois taxpayers for each of the 400,000 Medicaid-eligible members in their program are so generous that they can count on that taxpayer fed cash cow to see them through not having enough nurses and doctors in their hospitals to actually provide the care they charge taxpayers for. Illinois taxpayers give Cook County Health so much money to “manage” the health care of Medicaid recipients that CCH doesn’t care that thousands of home health aides work thousands of hours every month in excess of their approved service plans. Or that they… Read more »
So true. My primary source of personal opinion is a “dual-eligible” friend who is blind and deaf. The past several years’ saga through this system illustrates the disgusting corruption of government industry’s incestuous relationships with medical- titled financial contracts industry. Ps there are fewer and fewer nurses who are unaware of 55-year-old retired teachers with free (taxpayer funded) insurance and $70,000-$100,000+ annual public guaranteed pensions. If Illinois values its nurses so far below its teachers, it is difficult for nurses to stay motivated. What if nurses demanded what teachers get: work 20 years to age 58, get free insurance, pay… Read more »
The post is one quarter of the jobs at the safety net health system are open, and morale is low as officials .. https://www.vitahaus.com/
Perhaps forcing employees to take an experimental drug encouraged early retirements by physicians in those specialties.
The gross mishandling of the pandemic set all this in motion.
And now admissions to medical schools are being awarded based on equity!?! When will the madness end?