That’s $1.6 billion in taxpayer money, of course. Not J.B. Pritzker’s money. And this comes from program auditors via the Chicago Tribune, not Elon Musk or DOGE.
It sounds as though Illinois could use a DOGE team or three, though:
Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration vastly underestimated the cost and popularity of a pair of health insurance programs for immigrants who are not citizens that has ended up costing the state $1.6 billion since the initiative began in 2020, according to an audit report released Wednesday.
Aside from inaccurate projections of the programs’ cost and the number of people who would enroll, the audit uncovered more than 6,000 people enrolled in the programs who were listed as “undocumented” despite having Social Security numbers, and nearly 700 who were enrolled in the program for people 65 and older despite being younger than…
