From Chicago Business:
Illinois' congressional delegation is pressing Cook County Board President Todd Stroger to clean up problems at the county's cash-strapped hospital system if he expects lawmakers to fight for more dollars from Washington.During a tense meeting at Sen. Richard Durbin's office in the U.S. Capitol in March, the senator and a half-dozen other Illinois lawmakers raised concerns over problems that led to recent job and service cuts at county hospitals and clinics.
Sen. Durbin urged Mr. Stroger to bring in outside advisers "who know what they're doing" to help overhaul the system, says a person who attended the meeting.Mr. Stroger appears to have heeded the blunt advice. This week, a freshly appointed "blue-ribbon committee" of local health and business leaders convenes in Chicago. At Sen. Durbin's insistence, the eight-member panel will look beyond the Bureau of Health Services' fiscal woes to recommend broader fixes to an entrenched management structure that critics say breeds patronage and incompetence.
The ultimatum from congressional Democrats who backed Mr. Stroger's election in November shows they intend to hold him to his campaign promise to fix management problems and end patronage at the health bureau. Mr. Stroger needs them: He is seeking more than $200 million in additional federal funding for the health system.
3 comments:
Well Dick Durbin will certainly get my vote again!
We need more with some guts to let the Toddler know what is what.
Tom Dart, the Sheriff of Cook County, and Dick Devine, Cook County States Attorney certainly have guts as well, they did not back down to him either.
I know that news brought a smile to your face, Chicago Native. Finally, someone like Durbin steps in and has the gut to let Urkel know what is what. But, this let Todd Urkel know that he is being watched.
Oh don't worry Todd is being watched by most responsible voters in Cook County.
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