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"For many rural hospitals, Medicaid covers a large percentage of their patients and accounts for a significant portion of the hospital’s budget. Without Medicaid, these hospitals will be forced to shut down, laying off their employees and further isolating Americans from health care."
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Not sure how insurance was structured back then, but Dick sure solved his insurance issue with taxpayer funded Cadillac government coverage since, which sure ain’t Obamacare.
Hey Traitor Dick, shut up you annoying twit
100% of these alleged cuts are to the bureaucrats overpopulating Medicaid offices.
Dick Turdbin is defending bureaucracy. Again.
100 years ago there wasn’t any government health insurance. durbin is filth.
Hmm.. wondering how helpless the family of the woman murdered in road rage by the drug kingpin sentenced to life he sprung feel? Wondering how helpless Epstein’s victims feel as DICK keeps fighting the release of “ the list “?
He was an uninsured new father nearly 60 years ago. What is this guy talking about?
I thought he was referring to when he was a little younger in the Old Testament days.