Illinois

His profit stream in his nursing homes is threatened if the medicaid funds are cut. Medicare only covers a total of 90 days of nursing home care. After that is exhausted it becomes a self pay thing and then it falls to medicaid to pay.

NOTHING he does is unrelated to his personal finances.

If he actually gave a crap he'd be working with Madigan (who also is disinterested in this idea, btw) to go with a form of medicare for every Illinois citizen. Savings due to lower administrative costs could be substantial. Look at the California model that is being discussed if you want to see an idea of the feasibility.


Laura