Obamacare may hold the key to saving the U.S. from Ebola

Chicago Tribune ^ | October 2, 2014 | By Laurie Garrett, Foreign Policy

[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.

[jpsb]

You forgot the BARK alert

[jpsb]

BARF not Bark :(

[Oldeconomybuyer]

You forgot the BARK alert

Indeed.

[Truth is a Weapon]

What an incredibly stupid and self-serving article. No hospital would ever turn away a suspected Ebola patient for lack of funds. It would be a matter of public health. Not money.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Someone will try to isolate the “elite” from this but will wind doing “The Mask of the Red Death” instead

[Rennes Templar]

There were 47 million uninsured when O care started. They say they insured 8 million. That leaves 39 million uninsured. Are they all going to sign up in the next round of enrollment?

[Ingtar]

Didn’t 11-13 million lose coverage so that “8 million” could be covered?

[Rennes Templar]

Right, so there was probably a net loss in covereds.

And this is supposed to save us from Ebola.

[Baynative]

[RJS1950]

If this gets out of hand I think they will be hunted down and nobody but their private army will stand by them. Even that won't be enough. Like Ceaușescu, they won't find anyone to hide behind once the march to get them begins.

[SaraJohnson]

The goberment will kill us by bringing the disease into the country and then save us with lots of free body bags and burials. Homeland Insecurity is all ready to go.