Hate to say it, but this stuff about racism true or not doesn't matter...the first person coming over here with ebola had to die to set precedent. The precedent is that anyone with ebola won't get cured if they come to the USA.
If Duncan was turned away because of semi-socialized healthcare protocols I guarantee you won't hear about it. My guess is he didn't have health insurance, correct? Do you know how you get treated at the hospital when you have no health insurance? Like this.
The virus is semi-airborne obviously. Aerosol/droplet transfer from sneezing or coughing at least.
The control of words is thick both on the news and from the CDC. Almost anything that happens the news keeps a tally - but for some reason they don't report total numbers of cases, or deaths, or quarantines, or the issues in France and Spain....stinks bad.
Before there was semi-socialized healthcare, as you put it, if one went to the ER and had no insurance they were turned away and sent to a county hospital, regardless of how critical their condition or how far away county was. When a neighbor's child suffered 3 degree burns over most of her body, her father took her to three ER's before he ended up taking her to County. She later died.
As it stands today, folks with no health insurance still go to a hospital ER because they don't have the option of going to a doctor unless they pay cash upfront. Many folks who do not have insurance don't have the money to pay for a doctor visit either. Because there is "semi-socialized healthcare" hospitals are required to treat all patients regardless of whether they have healthcare insurance or not.
My sister, who had neither medical insurance nor the funds to pay for a hospital stay, was in a California hospital for 10 days following a near drowning incident several years ago. As you might imagine, the bill was astronomical. She never paid it. People with healthcare insurance indirectly foot the bill for folks like my sister who can't or don't pay.
