Unanswered Questions Remain After Scathing Report On Cook County Health – WBEZ

Among Inspector General Blanchard’s most significant findings: CountyCare finished the 2018 budget year owing hospitals and other vendors nearly $701 million. The backlog was so bad that some vendors cut off supplies, resulting in a shortage of pacemakers and anesthesia for surgeries, Blanchard alleges. The investigation also raised concerns about whether the county health system is shuffling money around in order to make its finances appear rosier than they really are.
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NB-Chicago
4 years ago

complete mess, more fake book keeping, hoc-us-pocus,,precursor of medicaid for all/ single payer–what could possibly go wrong! now only thing left to do-find some way to blame it all on rauner

debtsor
4 years ago
Reply to  NB-Chicago

Exactly, medicaid for all is more like it with death panels, denied procedures, waiting lists and so on and so on.

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