Posted on 11/17/2014 9:14:45 AM PST by Zakeet
Senator Charles Schumer wants President Obama to pick up New York City’s more than $20 million tab for treating its first Ebola patient.
Since the Big Apple and Bellevue Hospital treated and cured Dr. Craig Spencer of the “infectious disease that is a threat to the nation,” the New York lawmaker believes the government should pony up and reimburse the city.
“Last week, Dr. Spencer thankfully returned home healthy and free of Ebola,” Schumer said Sunday. “But the world-class response mounted by New York City and Bellevue HHC was not free, and the bottom line is local communities and local taxpayers should not foot the whole bill for handling an infectious disease that is a threat to the nation.”
The senator said that the city and hospital should be compensated in the same way that communities are compensated following a natural disaster.
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Upchuck Chucky is almost on the right track ... the bill should be split three ways ... 1/3 to Africa for causing the problem in the first place ... 1/3 to Obozo personally for allowing disease carriers into the country ... and 1/3 to the New York for allowing the idiot doctor to have the run of the city.
It says “telling Obama”, but ultimately isn’t Schumer telling every American to open their wallet so that New Yorkers do not have to open theirs? Didn’t every American send trillions to the New Yorkers as part of the great bailout?
Tell Schumer to deduct it from that boondoggle.
Cripplecreek: No! You want them, you pay for them. The same goes for illegals.
$20 mil???
Hey Schmuck. Haven’t you been paying attentio? NYC didn’t solve the problem, somebody else did that. /S
NYC really is an expensive place to do business..........
Easy! Just take it from Obama’s “stash”!
Send the bill to the good doctor, he’s probably back at the bowling alley.
I think the NYers should foot the whole bill. After all, they elected and reelected Bath House overwhelmingly.
You made your bed. Now lay in it.
yeah and reimburse all the states for cost of illegal aliens because the fed has refused to enforce our laws..
Oh, it will effect them/us all, we know it will,
like a smack in the nose on a cold morning.
If I have to go to the hospital, I’m the one stuck with the inflated bill. Make Dr. Ebowla paid his own stinking bill.
Why didn’t the guy’s Obamacare insurance cover this?
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