What was the cook county experiment?

cook county’s big experiment began in 1996, a year after a

remarkable man named brendan reilly came to chicago to

become chairman of the hospital’s department of medicine.

the institution that reilly inherited was a mess. as the city’s

principal public hospital, cook county was the place of last

resort for the hundreds of thousands of chicagoans without

health insurance. resources were stretched to the limit.

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