Posted on 10/13/2014 1:49:31 PM PDT by maggief
PORTLAND (WGME) -- Maine Medical Center says a patient is currently being held at the request of the CDC for observation as a precautionary step, but says the hospital does not have a confirmed case of Ebola.
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No brag, just fact.
True. But we can hide in woods and wait for -20 degrees F.
You do have that going for you. ;)
This action is skirting constitutional problems imo. More specifically, the Supreme Court has historically indicated that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to quarantine citizens for health purposes.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
Note that I agree with the CDC's request in principle. But let's amend the badly neglected Constitution so that the federal government can make such requests within the framework of the Constitution.
Florida or Arizona is safer?
Almost every single "Suspected Ebola patient in ____________ Hospital" could have been avoided with a proper risk evaluation.
So, if a man said “To hell with you! I’m going home!” It would take some very stupid people to wrestle with him.
Maine MC is excellent.
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Our daughter had heart surgery at Maine Medical Center’s Barbara Bush Children’s Unit. It is a top notch facility with an excellent pediatric cardiology dept. As a critical care nurse, I transported many adult patients to MMC from more rural hospitals. Their cardiac critical care units were top notch too.
The more rural hospitals not so much. Nursing care is generally very good. Nothing keeps nurses honest and kind like knowing they’ll see you or your family members in the grocery store. Medical care can be not so good though as we tend to get lots of Muslims and Hindus who are of varying degrees of compassion and expertise. Hygiene, too.
Mrs. AV
Maine has some of the best hospitals in New England, and New England has some of the best in the US. No offense.
The insurance is lousy, but the hospitals are top notch.
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