HMO-style Managed Care is Not the Way to Balance the [Illinois] Budget

[From our good friend John Bouman at the Shriver Center] As Illinois debates how to fix its disastrous budget, several politicians and interest groups are claiming that the State can save a billion dollars just by moving Medicaid enrollees to HMO-style capitated managed care... It's a political argument, not a real policy idea and not good reform.  Read the rest.