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Obamacare may hold the key to saving the U.S. from Ebola
Chicago Tribune ^ | October 2, 2014 | By Laurie Garrett, Foreign Policy

Posted on 10/02/2014 8:38:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Fear of Ebola has been climbing steadily in the United States since Tuesday's announcement that a Liberian traveler in Dallas, Thomas Eric Duncan, was diagnosed with the disease.

America's special vulnerability to Ebola is its limitations on access to health care. In times of contagion, societal risk rises with every uninsured or underinsured individual who struggles to work or go to school with a fever, and avoids bankrupting visits to health providers. One doesn't need to have a political position up or down on "Obamacare" to recognize and solve this.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; ebola; failure; obamacare; obamaebola; obola; socialism
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Garrett is senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Pulitzer Prize winning science writer.
1 posted on 10/02/2014 8:38:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, so THIS is the angle their taking?

THIS is why we have to have an epidemic
by any means possible?

To “save Obamacare”?


2 posted on 10/02/2014 8:39:05 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a load of CRAP!


3 posted on 10/02/2014 8:39:39 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BS!


4 posted on 10/02/2014 8:40:36 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More likely Obamacare will kill more. There are already longer waits, less doctors, and more crowded emergency rooms all due to ObamaScare.


5 posted on 10/02/2014 8:41:06 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All we need is single payer.

As a single payer beneficiary myself, I don’t see why we have to foot the bill for the rest of the world.

I think free health care if offered, should be only for Americans.


6 posted on 10/02/2014 8:41:15 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What do Obamacare and Ebola have in common? They both cause sever puking.


7 posted on 10/02/2014 8:41:26 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: MrB

Go to the senior homes where everyone has had their shot...and the flu is all over the place.


8 posted on 10/02/2014 8:42:25 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, after I stopped laughing, this certainly gives new meaning to the term “death panels”.


9 posted on 10/02/2014 8:42:34 AM PDT by Lake Living
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To: oh8eleven

Do not glibly dismiss the administration’s attempts to create a pandemic plague here in the US. They will achieve their goal of nationalizing secular life by any means necessary. The October surprise is upon us.


10 posted on 10/02/2014 8:42:41 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Poppycock!


11 posted on 10/02/2014 8:42:52 AM PDT by greatvikingone
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To: MrB

I think they tried the epidemic thing a while back...with that U2 or something.


12 posted on 10/02/2014 8:43:04 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Puppage

“What a load of CRAP!”

Indeed, but what else can we expect from the MSM?

Little boys and girls with dim-bulb-crat cheerleading outfits on, girly-girl pom poms, and no residual intelligence.


13 posted on 10/02/2014 8:43:12 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This writer assumes that doctors and other medical personnel are just going to blithely sacrifice their own lives and families for a culture that hates doctors. Bah. The nurses will run first, and then the doctors. And it will hit liberals the hardest, because they always believe that government will save them.


14 posted on 10/02/2014 8:43:34 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Guaranteed coverage to send me to a hospital that did not recognize that flu + recent trip to Liberia = potential Ebola?

RIIIIIIIGGGGHT!!!


15 posted on 10/02/2014 8:44:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

knee pad journalism strikes againQQ


16 posted on 10/02/2014 8:44:40 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
everything is under control
17 posted on 10/02/2014 8:45:21 AM PDT by JPG ("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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To: Puppage

Then they wonder why the CFR is held in such low esteem by people living outside the Beltway.


18 posted on 10/02/2014 8:45:29 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Mamzelle

The people who have to disinfect will run first.


19 posted on 10/02/2014 8:45:30 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Garrett is senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Pulitzer Prize winning science writer.

Garret is living proof that his credentials are worthless. It's crap like this that proves the stupidity our elitist.

20 posted on 10/02/2014 8:45:35 AM PDT by trubolotta
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