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Article: Who pays for hospital care? Cook County says it can't foot bill alone.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Byline: Rob Olmstead
rolmstead@@dailyherald.com
When officials in the collar counties talk about Cook County, it's often mentioned as the place where tax dollars go to die.
But Cook County Board President Todd Stroger recently sat down with collar county officials to show them another view: Cook County is where some collar county residents go to stay alive - literally.
Stroger presented figures showing collar county residents have been using Cook County Bureau of Health facilities at the expense of Cook taxpayers.
And while the bureau of health's own leaders acknowledge that the main county hospital, Stroger Hospital, was ...