John Bouman

PI Original
by Progress Illinois
9:00am
Fri May 22, 2009

Springfield Must Do The Right Thing

The clock is ticking down towards the end of the General Assembly
session.  It is time for our leaders to do the right thing and vote for
the revenues needed to maintain the state’s crucial services.

In our troubled economy, the line between those who are poor and
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PI Original
by Josh Kalven
10:47am
Thu Jul 24, 2008

A New Way Of Defining Progress

Nine years ago, Chicagoan Mark Emerson left his job with a large
company that offered group health coverage to pursue the American dream
and start his own business. He did not know that this would begin an
ordeal in which he was "charged back into the stone age” as
...

PI Original
by John Bouman
12:42pm
Fri Jun 27, 2008

A Case Study In Preserving The Status Quo

This year in Springfield, the main players in the health insurance industry provided a case study in how they resist even the simplest changes. They once again illustrated how they do not understand, or at least do not take seriously, that the health care system is in ...