A continuation of the analysis of the current situation in Illinois by WirePoints:
Fact 11
11. Medicaid crowd out. Medicaid costs continued to balloon as the number of Illinoisans enrolled in the program jumped by 60 percent – or more than 1 million people – between 2005 and 2014. As a result, total Medicaid costs grew nearly 2.5 times between 2000 and 2015, from $5.1 billion to $12.3 billion.
Medicaid was originally meant to be a health care safety net for the poor and disadvantaged, but by 2014 it covered 25 percent of the population. That’s crowded out services for the state’s most needy.
Above is just financial side of the growing chaos.
Here’s other facets of the sweeping chaos:
WARNING!!!!
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Time to awaken people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UCvfWz84l0