I am surprised it wasn’t more than that. Probably they didn’t even count the loss of business from others since they had to clear out the entire ICU section.
That was my thought. How can they possibly use equipment that was used on Duncan, like the ventilator and dialysis machine, on other patients? My guess was "millions", and that's before the effect on their bottom line of all the patients who went elsewhere because Duncan was there. I've wondered if Dallas Presbyterian will end up in bankruptcy because of this one single patient.
"According to Gerard Anderson, health policy professor at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duncan's care is likely to have cost the hospital some $18,000 to $24,000 daily and had suggested shortly before his death that the hospital could write off the charges as charity."
BRILLIANT! And so then were is the money that the hospital "writes off" going to come from, Dr. Anderson? Obama's "stash"? That's maybe the dumbest statement I've ever heard from one of the world's "smartest people".