We have yet to be told what is the cost of Duncan's care to date, nor who is paying for it?
But that question can't be ignored, especially when the Obama administration still refuses to ban flights to the US from West Africa. Obama thinks nothing of dumping thousands of illegal kids all over the country, causing severe financial strain to local governments and school districts.
The cost of this medical crisis could well turn out to be much worse.
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? That would make them complicit.
Lots of questions, worth digging into...
What about that plane that keeps bringing people in my health care plan does not include private jet tansport
Obamacare!
YOU are paying for it!
Taxpayers paying for it I assume.
Like everything else.
He’s dead, Jim...
First US Ebola Patient Dies
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/305795#.VDGE—cXyBS
Sue the airlines. Wasn’t it Delta?
Anyway, they knew he was high risk as his Liberian passport indicated. They are negligent.
It’s free! The gubmint is payin fo it.
And liberals get angry if we ask these questions. I was flamed repeatedly on a general news site when asking about this. I was told I was cruel and lacking compassion to ask who is paying his hospital bill. And how we treat everyone regardless of ability to pay, etc.
I was just wondering that myself after I watched a news clip of that NBC guy who flew into Nebraska with Ebola. He needed a pretty big entourage of police and medical vehicles to show him the way to the hospital. I mean, it was “Looks like we got us a convoy.” stuff.
no doubt he got sent home from that ER because he did not have insurance.
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.
Look in the mirror, FREind.
A lot, but not for long, and you are.
On the good side, they say they are trying experimental treatment on him, so I suppose we may benefit long term from having a patient for doctors to test it on.
My Sister-in-law (Doctor's wife) had an interesting theory:
When Duncan went to the hospital the first time and was given some antibiotics and sent home, instead of being immediately admitted and isolated, perhaps it was because they found out that he had no health insurance?