This is the County in which certain nursing homes actually advertised in writing that they would pay a bounty for every ‘patient’ that you brought into their facilities.   This is the county in which a doctor had the temerity to refer to the elderly as a “commodity”  The nursing home advertised that they would pay $2000.00 for grandma!

 I did not check and see what the future’s contract set the bid and ask price for grandma today.   Corruption is ingrained into our daily lives.   In Cook County elder lives are big money.   One of the Chicago nursing home operators went to Florida and got indicted and convicted for stealing 1.3 billon dollars from Medicare.  That was Philip Esformes.   He is small potatoes.   His colleagues are much more proficient and better connected – thus, they are NOT prosecuted.   In the