Posted on 05/15/2008 7:36:31 PM PDT by uptoolate
Gov. Wants Health Care Expansion Despite Unpaid Bills
CHICAGO (CBS) ― Gov. Rod Blagojevich continues to push an expansion of state-subsidized health insurance, despite a new audit that found at least $1.5 billion in unpaid bills and the system is plagued by mismanagement.
CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports among the health care programs affected by the state's delinquency in paying its bills is a treatment program for pregnant drug abusers. The Haymarket Center recently had to wait more than three months for payment from the State of Illinois, and in the meanwhile had to find $600,000 elsewhere to maintain its mission of saving infants from being born drug-addicted.
"I don't understand how we can do business with the State if we don't get paid on time," said Anthony Cole of Haymarket Center.
Illinois Auditor General William Holland found Medicaid service providers have reason for concern. The Blagojevich administration had an average $1.5 billion in unpaid bills stacked up at the end of each of the last three years, and it's getting worse.
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Done.
These guys think it’s hard getting paid now, wait until the feds take over with their magical “universal healthcare.” Good luck pal!
The Illinois government (mostly ‘Rats) can’t pay the state’s bills, but they can vote themselves pay raises.
If you think healthcare is too expensive now, wait till it’s ‘free’.
they require SO much paperwork for approval and then go thru it with a fine tooth comb so they can send it back to the doctor....
I cringe what will happen when we get "national" health insurance...
Blagojevich is a complete disaster. He is widely disliked in his own party. He does not play well with others, be it members of either party or his father-in-law. Yet, there NO ONE on the Illinois political scene whether it be a Republican or Democrat to challenge this guy in the general election or the primary. Illinois’s only hope may be what comes out of the Rezko trial may make this boy clown a cell mate of the previous governor.
A great quote from P. J. O’Rourke.
If Obama is elected President, Blago will appoint himself to fill the vacant Senate seat. He is term-limited from seeking another term as Governor and a "safe" blue seat in the U. S. Senate, would get him away for the loathsomeness of Springfield. This is another very good reason to oppose Obama.
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