Pharmacist’s road to bankruptcy paved by Illinois' rocky fiscal path

Illinois Statehouse News reports:

Tom Miller drives at least 120 miles round trip each workday to his job as a relief pharmacist, catching work wherever and whenever he can.

“I’m hustling it,” Miller said. “I literally work per diem.”

He racked up most of the 190,000 miles on his 2003 car after last July, when he and his wife closed their pharmacy in the small, southern Illinois town of Marion, due mostly, he said, to late Medicaid reimbursements from the state. Miller hit the road, looking for work.

The state: the God that failed.