Posted on 10/10/2014 11:37:46 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
The 33-year-old freelance cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia is fighting for his life at the University of Nebraska Medical Center this week. He’s also racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills.
According to a GoFundMe campaign launched Monday by his friends, Ashoka Mukpo’s medical bills could run in excess of $500,000.
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He comes from a rich family does he not?
Ebola patient Ashoka Mukpo once hailed as reincarnated lama
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/us-ebola-patient-ashoka-mukpo-liberia
But don’t issues such as hospital bills, or any debts, pass on to the estate of the deceased? I understand you personally were not liable, and you got the hospital to stop sending you bills. But did your father have an estate? And if so, did they bill the estate?
Hey I have a better idea: Repeal Obamacare, put insurance on the free market and put an end to bottom feeding John Edwards ambulance chasers.
Firstly, no one has seen the actual bills.
Secondly, how much do you think it costs the hospital to shut off probably
a half dozen rooms in an isolation unit. provide round the clock security, deal with the media,
deal with their own freaked out employees, deal with their community.
They will see a downturn in business as patients opt to go elsewhere because of the Ebola stigmata.
After all of that they will have at least a dozen employees on this patient
and will be providing incredibly costly drug therapy.
IF the hospital collects $500,000 they will still be losing money.
We just set up trust funds, and one of the things that was attractive about them was the NO LAWSUITS, no Probate. And they are protected from gold diggers. It even protects our home from lawsuits should 1 of us die. It first goes into a Marital Trust, then if both die, it goes into trust funds for the family members stated. In the case of my grandson it is for education only until he turns 30, his parents are NOT the trustees, they’d think he would need a trip to Disney World/Land.
If the trust were in England that is another story, not knowing English law. The parents may have already signed all personal property over to some one else, who can’t be held responsible. Then you have the issue of Entailment’s in England.
Hospital is screwed no matter how it goes. We the tax payers will pick up the bill.
Who? You and me.
That’s why she had an affair with the doctor, which resulted in Ashoka. This lady was quite the fast little piece of baggage!
Agreed. He is asking for private charity, people are giving of their own free will, not at the point of an IRS gun.
I might chip in m'self.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Konchok Foundation....
that right there is funny....
Not nearly as funny as the Chubb Group.
NBC didn't send him over there. He had already been there freelancing for three years. NBC hired him a mere 12 hours before he decided he was sick. That should be raising questions. Smells like NBC thought it could make headlines, imo.
If he is a Liberian we can just send the bill to his government.
It’s not like our country is broke or anything... oh wait... never mind.
You can't make this stuff up. I thought it was a joke at first.
As far as I know all medical bills are to be paid out of the estate that are not covered by insurance, of course.
Around a thousand or two of these cases will destroy the health industry. Obama would be very saddened to have to nationalize it.
Pray America wakes
Hmmmm, why doesn’t the illegal alien’s family in Texas need money to cover his medical bills?
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