An Illinois law that would automatically initiate massive cuts to Medicaid funding could derail health care in the state if threatened federal cuts to the program come to pass. If Illinois were to repeal the trigger law, and then fund the ACA Expansion beneficiaries at the lower traditional Medicaid percentage of 51% to keep these individuals covered, it would cost $3.2 billion annually — money the state simply does not have Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
Slower growth of Medicaid funding may not come to pass in Washington.
Healthcare costs entirely too much in the US and it is not in the interests of politicians to do anything about this.
Note the complete lack of cuts even contemplated by the Trump Administration. Crain’s, long a member of the useless Chicago Media, is merely doing its part to advance the fake DNC narrative.
Journalism is dead.
Notice in the article we hear the term “most vulnerable?” I read or hear that term so often these days. The interesting thing though is that there can only be one “most” so how can we have all of these different “most” vulnerable types when there can be only one?” Perhaps it is a new common core math things where “most” does not mean “most” anymore because when it comes to handing out taxpayer dollars be prepared to hear, as always, another “most vulnerable” to be added to the pile in need of your tax dollars.