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What is the cost of Thomas Duncan's medical treatment and who is paying for it?
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Posted on 10/06/2014 12:19:07 PM PDT by ken5050

Ebola is in the news everywhere. We're learning a lot. One question that has yet to be asked, let alone answered, is who is paying for the cost of Thomas Duncan's medical treatment, and how just big is the bill?


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ebola; pricetag; thomasduncan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Click the link.

The title and info at the article do not match the description, either yours or TigerClaws.

Looks like a false report.


21 posted on 10/06/2014 12:32:31 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: ken5050

no doubt he got sent home from that ER because he did not have insurance.


22 posted on 10/06/2014 12:33:41 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ken5050

23 posted on 10/06/2014 12:33:45 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: thackney

I was going by his narrative, as were almost 400 posters.


24 posted on 10/06/2014 12:34:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he died Sunday, why are they giving him experimental drugs today?

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/ebola-patient-receives-experimental-treatment-in-dallas-hospital.html/

Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who is fighting a severe Ebola infection in Dallas, is getting an experimental treatment, the hospital announced Monday.


25 posted on 10/06/2014 12:35:35 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I was going by his narrative, as were almost 400 posters.

That should tell you something about how false rumors spread.

26 posted on 10/06/2014 12:37:00 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: thackney

Did you read the thread?


27 posted on 10/06/2014 12:37:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Did you read the thread?

Not all of it. I started at the end and saw multiple postings about the report being false.

28 posted on 10/06/2014 12:39:54 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: ken5050
What is the cost of Thomas Duncan's medical treatment and who is paying for it?

I'll take a stab at it; expensive and we are.

Another question worth exploring is how did he pay for the ticket? The per capita annual income of Liberia is about $800. A last minute ticket to the US is probably about $2000. What were the source of the funds? Did his family here in the US pay for the ticket? Did they do so knowing that he was sick, and needing treatment?

I don't honestly know the answer to this but it's important to realize that not everyone in Africa is dirt-poor. They just have a huge income gap with a small handful of people at the top, politically connected, who are wildly rich and vast swaths at the bottom who subsist on virtually nothing. What Africa does not have is a middle class. It's quite possible that Duncan was one of Africa's "one percenters" with the means to travel here in an effort to save his own life.

29 posted on 10/06/2014 12:41:08 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: thackney

No, I meant the actual posting by the thread poster? Where’d that come from?


30 posted on 10/06/2014 12:41:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: thackney
Thomas Eric Duncan, Lazarus, the Liberian national who is fighting a severe Ebola infection in Dallas, is getting an experimental treatment, the hospital announced Monday. There fixed it.
31 posted on 10/06/2014 12:41:40 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is the wanker dead or not?


32 posted on 10/06/2014 12:41:41 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: Drew68

A clerk at a FedEx agency doesn’t sound like a one-percenter.


33 posted on 10/06/2014 12:42:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Where’d that come from?

I'm guessing a false report. Probably believed true and not sufficiently confirmed. I'm not claiming a FReeper made it up. But the link he posted do not now say that claim; they probably got better information and fixed it.

34 posted on 10/06/2014 12:43:45 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: KSCITYBOY

Schrödinger’s cat.


35 posted on 10/06/2014 12:43:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.inquisitr.com/1521481/u-s-ebola-patient-dies-stories-circulating-have-not-been-confirmed/


36 posted on 10/06/2014 12:48:11 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yesterday Israel National News DID have an article claiming he was dead-—I saw it.

Lousy reporting.

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37 posted on 10/06/2014 12:51:39 PM PDT by Mears
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To: ken5050

Look in the mirror, FREind.


38 posted on 10/06/2014 12:53:10 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

From what I’ve derived from various sources is that the NBC guy knowingly exposed himself while helping the “humanitarian” effort of cleaning a vehicle that carried a dying/dead ebola patient. I remember the initial reports saying that NBC had hired him 3 days before he showed symptoms. The only conclusion is that NBC knowingly hired him because they felt there was nothing wrong with him exposing himself to the virus and that NBC or at least the NBC crew wanted to help him get immediate aid with NBC Corp or whomever else (taxpayers) paying the bill.

This guy is just as duplicitous as the dirtbag african who brought it here by lying.


39 posted on 10/06/2014 12:54:42 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A clerk at a FedEx agency doesn’t sound like a one-percenter.

Maybe not in America. In Africa? You'd be surprised at how much graft someone in such a position could acquire.

40 posted on 10/06/2014 12:56:07 PM PDT by Drew68
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