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With the City already staring down major cuts, the Department of Public Health could be adding to the cutbacks. The DPH could be forced to cut spending by 25 percent and layoff as many as 80 workers. The main culprit? The ongoing state budget crisis in Springfield right now. Dr. Terry Mason, DPH head, said yesterday at a press conference, “This is real. This is not something that is contrived. You cannot make bricks without straw and you cannot provide services without people. This political game which is being framed as an economic argument, but it’s a political game and it needs a political solution and it needs it now.” Other departments, such as the Department of Family and Support Services, also face double-digit cuts. [Chi-Town Daily News]
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What exactly does the Chicago DPH do? And can someone describe what are essential and nonessential services or what is duplicated at the county level?
Check out their website to find out what they do. They do what all public health agencies do----detect, track, control and eliminate outbreaks of infectious diseases. They also do a lot of prevention work, like mass vaccination. They also operate physical and mental health clinics for the poor----people who can't get care elsewhere because we don't have national health insurance. If we'd find a way to get everyone decent health insurance, we wouldn't need public clinics. But until we as a nation decide to do it, well...