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Eugene

(61,593 posts)
Sat Jul 1, 2017, 12:55 AM Jul 2017

Judge orders Illinois to boost Medicaid bill payments

Source: Reuters

A U.S. judge on Friday dealt a major financial blow to Illinois by ordering the cash-strapped state to pay $586 million a month to Medicaid providers to ensure continued medical care for poor and disabled residents.

The order by Judge Joan Lefkow also stipulated that Illinois send $2 billion to Medicaid providers during the fiscal year that starts on Saturday to pay down the existing $3.1 billion backlog of unpaid bills.

Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, whose office pays the state's bills, said the ruling "takes the state’s finances from horrific to catastrophic" and called on state lawmakers to immediately pass a budget.

"Payments to the state’s pension funds; state payroll including legislator pay; general state aid to schools and payments to local governments – in some combination – will likely have to be cut," she said in a statement. "Payments to the state’s bond-holders will continue uninterrupted."

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POLITICS | Fri Jun 30, 2017 | 8:41pm EDT
By Karen Pierog and Dave McKinney | CHICAGO


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-illinois-budget-medicaid-idUSKBN19L310?il=0

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Judge orders Illinois to boost Medicaid bill payments (Original Post) Eugene Jul 2017 OP
Judge Lefkow has been in the news in the past. murielm99 Jul 2017 #1
too bad the Judge can't find Gov Rauner, SPeaker Madigan to be in contemp of court and beachbum bob Jul 2017 #2
Remind me again why they thought electing a GOP broadcaster90210 Jul 2017 #3
Good luck getting that money NobodyHere Jul 2017 #4
Yeah, is the judge sending the $ 2 billion with her order? Yupster Jul 2017 #5
It'll probably come out of her underfunded pension fund NobodyHere Jul 2017 #6

murielm99

(30,656 posts)
1. Judge Lefkow has been in the news in the past.
Sat Jul 1, 2017, 02:03 AM
Jul 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Lefkow

She is a Clinton employee. Her family was murdered. She seems to get the high profile controversial cases.
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
2. too bad the Judge can't find Gov Rauner, SPeaker Madigan to be in contemp of court and
Sat Jul 1, 2017, 07:45 AM
Jul 2017

send them to jail for a few weeks and keep doing so until Illinois has a budget

Yupster

(14,308 posts)
5. Yeah, is the judge sending the $ 2 billion with her order?
Sat Jul 1, 2017, 07:36 PM
Jul 2017

If they had the money they wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.

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