Cost for the Liberian Ebola patient: $ 1000/hour

[MillCreek]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-07/bill-for-ebola-adds-up-as-care-costs-1-000-an-hour.html

Note carefully the part about how the patient is not eligible for Medicaid, the Liberian Embassy is hedging on paying, and how ultimately, the hospital will most likely have to write this all off as bad debt, absorb the cost and pass it along to other patients.  So one the one hand, we can see how the taxpayers of America dodged the bullet, but the hospital takes it in the shorts.

[HankB]

They say today is the day that symptoms will begin showing up in anyone the Liberian guy infected . . . we'll see if it's as trivial a matter as the "experts" are claiming.

Hmmm . . . maybe we should just drop the infected guy off at the Liberian embassy - and then cordon it off. Shouldn't be too hard - it's not exactly a huge compound.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/diagnosis/
Testing is available pre symptoms

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[MillCreek]

For that matter, is the American State Department any different?  If an indigent American is hospitalized overseas, does the State Department write a check on behalf of the American?  I wonder.

[HankB]

Just read that the infected Liberian has expired . . .

[Jamisjockey]

Hopefully his expiration will convince a few of them they're not better off here for treatment.


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[cassandra and sara's daddy]

I hope so but their world view is not based on the same reality we have


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