ObamaCare: Quinn touts 100K enrollees; all in Medicaid

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

10/17/2013

Gov. Pat Quinn has been touting 100,000 new Cook County enrollees as evidence of ObamaCare’s success. The reality is that this claim reflects both desperate and creative government accounting. The governor was referring to 100,000 people who enrolled in the state’s Medicaid expansion program earlier this year under an early pilot project in Cook County....

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, Cook County, Get Covered Illinois, Medicaid, Pat Quinn

Cook County’s debt downgraded: pension liabilities double under Moody’s new methodology

By Ted Dabrowski

08/17/2013

Chicago’s fiscal crisis just got worse. Last month, the city received a rare triple-notch downgrade from Moody’s Investors Service, to A3 from Aa3. Now, Chicago’s parent government, Cook County, has received a downgrade of its own. Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Cook County’s general obligation bond rating to A1 from Aa3 due to the county’s “growing...

TAGS: Chicago, Cook County, downgrade

NANNY STATE: Cook County joins the war on sugar

By Hilary Gowins

02/15/2013

Officials are hot on the tracks of another menace threatening the well-being of Illinoisans: sugary drinks.

TAGS: Cook County, nanny state

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ObamaCare: Quinn touts 100K enrollees; all in Medicaid

Cook County’s debt downgraded: pension liabilities double under Moody’s new methodology

NANNY STATE: Cook County joins the war on sugar

Chicago Forward 2026: A pro-growth plan to end city budget deficits

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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