A group of Chicago unions, including AFSCME Council 31 and the Chicago Teachers Union, have sued the city over a recent attempt to reform two of the city’s four pension funds.
Work should, in fact, pay.
There should be little doubt that these access problems will be exacerbated as the state has essentially handed out 500,000 Medicaid cards without providing any additional capacity for patient care.
The DCEO started handing out EDGE tax credits in 2001. Nearly $1 billion later, Illinois is one of only seven states to be down jobs.
There is clearly no lack of commitment aimed at supporting those in need here in Illinois. The question is how to do a better job of it.
Health-care access and affordability are important goals. But they will never be achieved with a single-payer system – and that isn’t bad news.
A thriving entrepreneurial culture depends on the ability to experiment and take risks without begging for permission from the government.
If lawmakers begin to enter the ObamaCare exchanges themselves, it will certainly draw attention to the hypocrisy of some lawmakers who have imposed this costly law on Americans. But perhaps more importantly, it could serve as an important lever to force lawmakers to re-examine the most damaging aspects of the law.
The flier has nothing to do with wages and benefits earned by state employees, or how their contract is enforced.