A leftist, racist shrew raises interesting questions about Ebola

Republicans are Ebola hypocrites

She's right about Republicans but totally wrong about why the US health system is not really at the top of its game, here.

Racism does not explain anything whatever in its questionable readiness to handle patients of whatever race, though she claims it does.

On the other hand, racism - the conviction that blacks have special moral rights whites can be morally forced to honor - does probably account for the administration's refusal to control travel to the US from West Africa.

She is also outrageously lying that the error in Texas was somehow due to the Liberian's being uninsured.

Hospitals send insured people home from the ED with antibiotics all the time.

And any medical professionals in America who would send back out onto the street an Ebola patient for lack of insurance should be imprisoned for a very long time for reckless endangerment and, if appropriate, for negligent homicide or worse.

On the other hand it is a fact that the uninsured don't get medical treatment they can't pay for, in America, apart from emergency treatment in the ED.

Would that include experimental or other drugs, if any were available?

Would that include transfusions of blood or plasma from Ebola patients who survived?

I don't actually know.

We have every reason to believe that actual or suspected Ebola patients will be quarantined, and even quarantined in hospitals.

But that might not mean, right now, given the law, that all of them will get the same sorts of treatment.

And it is an interesting question how hospitals and doctors will be paid for their services to the uninsured.

And while it is not universally known it is nonetheless true that Medicaid does not cover everything that private insurance covers, and does not cover the same things from one state to the next.

Years ago, Florida Medicaid did not cover liver transplants but Pennsylvania Medicaid did.

Floridians could die in Florida or move to Pennsylvania and hope they lived long enough to establish residency.

So, what about Texas Medicaid and Ebola?

And most private insurance does not cover experimental drugs or therapy or treatments.

So, what about that?