By David Jackson, latest article in BGA’s “Milking Medicaid” series, includes “An examination of state contracts, salary data, pension statements, court records and internal correspondence identified more than a dozen top-level Medicaid officials in Illinois who have current or recent financial ties to the giant insurance companies now managing the $16 billion per year taxpayers spend to provide medical care to people who cannot afford health coverage. … ‘When the relationships between the government and industry are so cozy, when there are so many financial entanglements, that necessary wall starts to look like Swiss cheese,’ said Alisa Kaplan, executive director of the watchdog group Reform for Illinois.”