How many presidential pardons or sentence commutations have been granted to people from Illinois?
Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...
White House Orders C.I.A. to Send Names as Worker Purge Expands
The White House ordered the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing employees hired in the past two years, part of the ...
The Pantagraph4d
States absorb big increases in Medicaid for sicker-than-expected enrollees after COVID-19 pandemic
States are absorbing substantial increases in health care costs for the poor, as they realize that the people remaining on ...
Opinion
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Rich Miller: Lack of new Illinois revenue draws focus to Medicaid expansion program
Illinois spent about $815 million on the Medicaid expansion program during the last fiscal year, HFS says. The feds paid out $7.34 billion because, as noted above, they pick up 90% of the total tab, ...
Herald & Review2d
Rich Miller: Lack of new Illinois revenue draws focus to Medicaid expansion program
However, events could overtake them. The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services’ list of Medicaid recipients by House and Senate districts has been urgently circulated among ...
Penn Live4d
Pa. among states hit with more Medicaid costs from enrollees who are sicker after COVID-19 pandemic
In Pennsylvania, state budget makers recently unveiled the scale of that miscalculation, with Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro proposing an increase of $2.5 billion in Medicaid spending in the next ...
WESA6d
Battle over Pennsylvania's Medicaid abortion restrictions returns to court
A lawsuit that seeks to eliminate Pennsylvania’s Medicaid restrictions on abortion was back in Commonwealth Court this week. And a Wednesday hearing presented an unusual scene, especially for an ...
Crain's Chicago Business5d
Bolingbrook clinic owner to pay $2.2M, serve three-year sentence for Medicaid fraud
“Thousands of Illinois residents rely on Medicaid for their health care, and this sentence should send a clear message that anyone who defrauds Illinois’ Medicaid program will be prosecuted to ...
WESA4d
States, including Pa., absorb increases in Medicaid for sicker-than-expected enrollees after COVID
In Pennsylvania, state budget makers recently unveiled the scale of that miscalculation, with Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro proposing an increase of $2.5 billion in Medicaid spending in the next ...
nptelegraph15h
Easy initial Unicam approval for 2nd Jacobson Medicaid bill
State Sen. Mike Jacobson said he doubts the Trump administration will gut the federal Medicaid dollars he hopes to leverage ...
Wall Street Journal3d
Secession From Illinois Is in the Air
Enough people are noticing in Illinois that some counties want to secede from the Land of Lincoln and join a state that isn’t ruled by public unions and their political yes-men. In November ...