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Illinois Senate Passes Medicaid Reform

12/31/2010
Yesterday, the Illinois Senate passed legislation recommended by the Special Committee on Medicaid Reform, and the legislation will be moving to the House.

Future Expenses: Financing the Spending of the Past

By Chris Andriesen
11/22/2010
by Ashley Muchow Using data from the CBO’s 2010 Long-Term Budget Outlook, Mercatus Center’s Veronique de Rugy has charted the long-term path of federal spending on three of its largest components–Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and interest on federal debt. Here’s the kicker: interest costs, if they remain on their current path, are set to become the majority of...

Senate Forms Committees to Study Workers’ Compensation and Medicaid Reform

By Chris Andriesen
11/18/2010
by Wesley Fox Senate President John Cullerton announced today that he will form committees to study workers compensation and Medicaid reform, which are initiatives Republicans promoted during the campaign.  The committees would advance legislation for a possible vote in January,according to the Sun-Times. Illinois’s workers’ compensation requirements are costly and discourage employers from hiring or even doing business...

WSJ Highlights Need for Health Care Transparency

10/26/2010
Today’s Wall Street Journal carried a special report on how Medicare claims data can be used to root out suspected waste, fraud and abuse (like the NYC family-medicine physician who was flagged for pocketing more than $2 million in 2008 from Medicare thanks in part to administering an odd battery of tests). Earlier this year, we testified in favor of creating...

Medicaid Taking Huge Bite Out of Illinois Budget

10/04/2010
by Wesley Fox Like many states, Illinois faces severe budget problems resulting from the economic recession.  Illinois’s budget problems are made worse by the massive cost of its Medicaid program.  According to the National Association of State Budget Officers, Medicaid represents approximately 30% of the Illinois budget. Only two other states (Maine and Missouri) commit more of their...

Congress bails out the unaffordable status quo

08/11/2010
by Collin Hitt Congress approved another bailout yesterday. This one for state governments and local school districts.  The feds will print $26 billion, ostensibly to forestall 161,000 teacher layoffs.  Without getting into the details about the nationwide teacher hiring glut of the past ten years, the threat to fiscal federalism from this new ‘stimulus,’ or...

$26 billion bailout of state and local government overspending

08/05/2010
by Kristina Rasmussen Congress is on its way to passing a $26 billion bailout of state and local government overspending. States like Illinois can’t afford to fund the costly Medicaid benefits and plush public employee union contracts they’ve bestowed, so the federal government is stepping in to fill the gap. Illinois is slated to “get” over $1...

Unlikely Illinois Will Receive Federal Money Included in State Budget

07/23/2010
by Amanda Griffin-Johnson Illinois Statehouse News (ISN) reports that “Gov. Pat Quinn’s office is, for the first time, acknowledging that the state may not get $750 million from Washington” for Medicaid. The Governor’s office was hoping that the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), the increased Medicaid reimbursements from the federal government, would be extended. Chances are...

Medicaid Transparency Bill Becomes Law!

06/28/2010
by Kristina Rasmussen The Medicaid transparency bill championed by Rep. Patti Bellock and the Illinois Policy Institute was signed into law by Governor Pat Quinn! The bill authorizes the Director of the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to create an online transparency portal like South Carolina’s website — let’s ask the Director to build onsunshine.illinois.gov and create one without delay. Director Julie...
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Chicago Forward 2026: A pro-growth plan to end city budget deficits

Chicago’s $1.15 billion projected budget gap is the latest in a decades-long string of structural deficits. Making Chicago’s high taxes worse is not the solution.

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