Posted on 02/23/2015 5:45:23 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer says the federal government is allocating $32 million to the state of New York to cover all expenses related to ebola readiness and treatment.
Schumer says that money from the federal Department of Health and Human Services will reimburse the state’s designated ebola treatment centers. New York City will receive $21.7 million and the rest of the state will receive $7.5 million.
The federal government will additionally pay for any expenses incurred by Bellevue Hospital, which treated ebola-stricken Dr. Craig Spencer for nearly three weeks. Spencer was diagnosed Oct. 23, days after returning from treating Ebola patients in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders. He recovered successfully from the deadly disease.
Weird because I never heard of New Yawk ever doing ebola “readiness and treatment”. They were all sent to Texas and Nebraska.
And Texas?
How much did they give Omaha? You know, where the most cases were treated?
Was Dallas reimbursed, since the federal government allowed Duncan into the country to infect two nurses at the hospital there?
They were all sent to Texas and Nebraska.
I believe the Atlanta area too.
You’re correct. I meant to throw Georgia into my post and didn’t do it.
Shhhhh don;t say ebola because there are some here at FR that are pretty sure we have hundreds if not thousands of cases all over the US
you apparently have forgotten that Emory hospital is in Atlanta Georgia. There was also a case or two sent to DC.
When THEY do it, not so much.
The only one who should be paying for the treatment of Dr. Craig Spencer is Dr. Craig Spencer. But he’s a liberal. Rules don’t apply to him.
Damn. How much would it have cost the taxpayers (the ones PAYING the check amount) if they had stopped all travel to anyone traveling from W. Africa?
I’d presume million, and a few scares/infections less
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