Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle decided to allocate more money to low-income health care, just as the Board preps to vote on the 2012 budget. Preckwinkle announced the $2 million bump with county commissioners yesterday. The additional funds will be divided between dental and primary health services in the suburbs.
“With the financial realities of the day…it takes courageous leadership and farsighted, strategic thinking to invest in the health of our residents,” said Dr. Ramanathan Raju, the county's health system’s chief executive officer.
The county's total allocation to the health system will now be $254 million with the adjustment. The Board is expected to vote on the proposed 2012 Cook County budget today.
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This is wonderful, but why aren't you questioning the board about why Preckwinkle doesn't control most of the county budget?? The forest preserve district and the sheriff's office control their own budgets, which means Preckwinkle can't influence them or move money from, say, the forest preserve over to the hospital to fund badly needed clinics or provide more charity care. My understanding is that Preckwinkle can access less than 10 percent of the county's total budget. WHO ARRANGED THAT??? Is that the handiwork of the late George Dunne, so that the forest preserve could remain a convenient trough for patronage workers? Why doesn't the current board change that?? Whose arms does Preckwinkle have to twist to be able to direct the entire county budget? And why aren't YOU insisting that she be able to do so??
I, for one, would rather see fewer forest preserve teams using five people to trim one tree and have more money available to the county's health and hospitals department. There's a good reason Preckwinkle was forced to virtually close down Oak Forest Hospital: she can't access most of the county's money in order to keep it afloat. You should be investigating that instead of yammering at Rahm Emmanuel for health services budget cuts that two generations of Daley financial shenanigans forced on him. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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