Bring Out Yer Dead

Illinois has the healthiest dead people in existence:

• Cook County has long been ridiculed for allowing dead people cast votes, but the state may have just garnered a new distinction.
  
  It paid $12 million in health care for people who were already dead — including in one case, for a person who had died in 1989.
  
  A new financial audit released by Auditor General Bill Holland’s office on Thursday found that the Illinois Department of Health and Family Services had 8,232 people still on Medicaid rolls qualifying for benefits, even though they were dead.
  
  The state paid monthly premiums totaling almost $7 million for 561 people who had already been dead for an average of nearly two years before they were enrolled in a state managed care program.

The oddest part is that the last 561 people on the list were enrolled automatically by the government, who probably should have known they were dead, seeing as how they were in the Illinois Medicaid program.

But hey, Illinois is cracking down on bake sales and lemonade stands!

• Illinois is renowned for our incredibly corrupt politicians. I've lost count how many of them have ended up in federal prison. This group of individuals is now trying to regulate little kid's lemonade stands and fund-raising bake sales.
  
  We have SO many big issues to deal with in this state, and today, at around 6:20pm, the bill HB5354 passed in both houses. The link I provided is for the most current information on the Illinois General Assembly's website concerning this bill.
  
  However, just before the vote tonight, the bill was amended again. It all happened so fast, that Illinois Senator Dan Duffy had to vote against it solely because he didn't have time to read it.

Be prompt with those taxes people - Illinois politicians are hungry.