Big raises for Cook County health workers

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

As Cook County grapples with how to close a half-billion-dollar budget deficit next year, top bosses at the county’s health and hospitals system have doled out pay raises to a smattering of top administrators, the largest a $40,000 pay bump.

For months, several county commissioners have drilled health system Chief Financial Officer Michael Ayers and CEO William Foley about the six-figure salaries earned by some of the top administrators in a health care system that serves the poor and uninsured. Commissioner William Beavers, a South Side Democrat, has been among the loudest, referring to them at one meeting recently as “pin-striped pimps.”

“The nurses and doctors aren’t getting the raises. All of these people getting raises are administrators,” Beavers told the Sun-Times again last week, adding: “They’re pin-stripe pimps.”

Great moments in public sector management!