The health insurance crisis facing Illinois state retirees. The stories must be told.
In Illinois we don’t know if the changes to our retiree supplemental health insurance that has been proposed by Central Management Services through Medicare Advantage will be a reduction in coverage. As in the case when an employer changes providers, it may force choices about doctors. Some of us will have to choose between keeping a doctor not in network and paying more or changing a doctor we
Michael Petrilli: “Diane Ravitch is a double agent.”
The Fordham Institute’s newly self-described expert on the poor continues his right-wing inquisition against the heretic, Diane Ravitch. In his National Review review (which he, without an ounce of cleverness, calls Rain of Errors. “Rain” instead of “reign.” Get it?) he denounces her as “Ravitch, the repentant reformer, the double agent.” But then concedes that “she knows the weaknesses in our arg
Dan Biss has been quiet lately. We won’t be.
State Senator Dan Biss from Skokie, Illinois. A couple of dozen IEA retirees and active teachers will be in front of State Senator Dan Biss’s Skokie district office tomorrow evening around 4:30. It’s at 3706 Dempster. Why Biss’ office. Biss is a member of the Gang of Ten, the joint legislative committee established after the failure of the Illinois House and Senate to agree on anything last Spr
10-16-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: The in box. Dylan Garity. Rigged Game.1 by Fred Klonsky / 41min 10-15-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Why doesn’t this feel empowering?