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In this Jan. 26, 2018 photo, South Shore Hospital CEO Timothy Caveny speaks in the emergency room of the hospital in Chicago. Three of every five patients entering South Shore Hospital are poor or disabled and get their health care coverage through government-subsidized Medicaid.  Medicaid doesn't cover all the costs to hospitals of providing the medical treatment, but reimbursement and the creative way Illinois receives matching federal dollars have allowed South Shore to continue providing vital services to its impoverished community on Chicago's South Side. If the hospital can't get $3 million from the a new program, South Shore would have to close by the summer, he says. (Leslie Adkins/Sun Times via AP)

In this Jan. 26, 2018 photo, South Shore Hospital CEO Timothy Caveny speaks in the emergency room of the hospital in Chicago. Three of every five patients entering South Shore Hospital are poor or disabled and get their health care coverage through government-subsidized Medicaid.  Medicaid doesn't cover all the costs to hospitals of providing the medical treatment, but reimbursement and the creative way Illinois receives matching federal dollars have allowed South Shore to continue providing vital services to its impoverished community on Chicago's South Side. If the hospital can't get $3 million from the a new program, South Shore would have to close by the summer, he says. (Leslie Adkins/Sun Times via AP)

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