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Why Texas is the Worst Place for Ebola to Strike First

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Texas might possibly be the absolute worst place for the first case of ebola in the US to turn up. Texas has no paid sick leave, and Gov. Rick Perry refused to take the Medicaid expansion offered under the Affordable Care Act. As a result, Texas has the highest uninsured rates in the country, with nearly one quarter of its residents having no medical coverage at all. None.

Friend of the show Thom Hartmann discussed this with Wendell Potter, an insurance industry whistle blower and author of Deadly Spin.

Watch the full segment.

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For the States turning down the Medicaid expansion, it isn't about the money that the Federal government will pay, which is the size of a rounding amount to the DOD. It is about the leverage of the worker that does not have to accept a low wage, to have access to the medical system. This leverage can also extend to the government that have to shell out billions to coax companies to relocate.

Owner: I want you to work for $1 a day

Worker: No

Owner: I hope you don't need medical care, I heard it can get expensive plus you might be denied care.


The same thing with other programs that cost very little such as housing and food stamps. Once these programs are available to a worker they can demand higher wages. This is one of the reason that wages in socialist countries are very high.

This small expenditure and redistribution of wealth has massive implications to other things such as wages and subsidies.
 
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Second person in Texas shows 'signs of Ebola'​


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An ambulance readies for an ebola patient in Frisco, Texas
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FRISCO — Crews are preparing to transport a patient exhibiting "signs and symptoms of Ebola" from a Frisco CareNow to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

The CareNow is located in the 300 block of Main Street. Patients are currently being held inside the clinic as crews at the scene examine staff and others inside the building.

"The patient claims to have had contact with the Dallas 'patient zero,'" according to a statement from Dana Baird-Hanks, a spokeswoman with the city of Frisco.
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Second Possible Ebola Case Reported In Texas​


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A person who is said to have had contact with Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was taken to the hospital after reporting feeling ill, the city of Frisco, Texas, announced Wednesday.

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported that the person showing symptoms is an employee of the Dallas County Sheriff's Office, and had been in the apartment Duncan was staying in before he was hospitalized Sept. 28. Duncan passed away Wednesday morning.

WFAA reported that the patient is Sgt. Michael Monnig, and that Monnig went into the apartment unit without wearing protective gear in order to have a quarantine order signed.

CDC Director Tom Frieden said that he could not confirm whether or not the patient has definite symptoms of Ebola or if he had direct contact with Duncan. The state had been monitoring 48 people who may have come into contact with Duncan, but Frieden said that none of them had exhibited any suggestive symptoms.

Statement from City of Frisco, Texas:
(October 8) At 12:32 p.m. today, October 8, Frisco dispatch received a call from Care Now, 301 Main Street, regarding a patient exhibiting signs and symptoms of Ebola. The patient claims to have had contact with the Dallas ‘patient zero’. Frisco firefighter-paramedics are in the process of transporting the patient. They are also in the process of examining clinical staff and other facility patrons. That number other people impacted is unknown. No other information is confirmed, available at this time.
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Dallas hospital worker tests positive for Ebola virus​


DALLAS — A health-care worker at the Dallas hospital that treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for the virus, according to a statement posted on the Texas Department of State Health Services website.

If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, it would mark the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the United States. Ebola has killed 4,000 people in West Africa.

Duncan, 42, from Liberia, died Wednesday morning at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

Dallas County officials hurried early Sunday to reassure residents that they were not in danger.

“While this was obviously bad news, it is not news that should bring about panic,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said at a somber Sunday morning news conference at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, according to WFAA’s website.

“That health-care worker is a heroic person,” Jenkins added. “Let’s remember that as we do our work that this is a real person who is going through a great ordeal, and so is that person’s family.”

Health officials said they were monitoring those who had contact with the worker after symptoms emerged. Ebola is not airborne — it is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person or exposure to contaminated objects such as needles. People are not contagious before symptoms such as fever develop.

The worker, whose identity was not released, was isolated after reporting a low-grade fever Friday night, the health department statement said. The worker was “self-monitoring,” according to hospital guidelines, and was put in isolation within 90 minutes of reporting symptons, officials said.
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He wanted to infect people and withhold treatment to study the progression of the disease for 40 or 50 years.
 
Shouldn't you be happy that everybody in Texas might end up infected with ebola?

This should be a wet dream for you Thoughtone.
 
actinanass said:
Shouldn't you be happy that everybody in Texas might end up infected with ebola?

This should be a wet dream for you Thoughtone.
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This just proves everything you and your ilk believe in politically is wrong.

Private sector can solve most problems.
Obamacare was wrong.
Government doesn't have the solutions.

I know you are scared shitless.
Opinions are different when they hit home.

Reform yourself!:smh:
 
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Second Texas Health Care Worker Tests Positive for Ebola

A second Texas health care worker who provided care for Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan has contracted the virus, according to preliminary test results released early Wednesday. The worker reported a fever Tuesday and was immediately isolated at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, state health officials said in a statement. Confirmatory testing will be carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. "Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored," the Texas Department of State Health Services said. "The type of monitoring depends on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus." It is the third case diagnosed in the U.S.

The worker was among those who took care of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died a week ago after he was diagnosed with Ebola earlier this month. The first Texas Health Presbyterian nurse to become infected, Nina Pham, said in a statement Tuesday that she was "doing well" and grateful for her care. Ebola is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person or exposure to contaminated objects such as needles. People are not contagious before symptoms such as fever develop.
 
Why We Should Not Be Surprised If Many More Are Infected in Dallas:



Dallas nurses describe Ebola hospital care:
'There was no protocol'​


DALLAS_A Liberian man who arrived by ambulance at a Dallas hospital with symptoms of Ebola sat for "several hours" in a room with other patients before being put in isolation, and the nurses who treated him wore flimsy gowns and had little protective gear, nurses alleged Tuesday as they fought back against suggestions that one of their own had erred in handling him.

The statements came as Nina Pham, a 26-year-old nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, fought off the Ebola virus after contracting it from the Liberian, Thomas Eric Duncan. The statements by the Dallas hospital nurses were read by representatives of the Oakland, Calif.-based group National Nurses United.

RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, said the nonunionized Texas nurses could not identify themselves, speak to the media independently or even read their statements over the phone because they feared losing their jobs.

Among other things, they said that Duncan "was left for several hours, not in isolation, in an area where other patients were present."

When a nurse supervisor demanded that he be moved into isolation, the supervisor "faced resistance from other hospital authorities," the nurses said.

They described a hospital with no clear guidelines in place for handling Ebola patients.


<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Duncan's lab specimens were sent through the usual hospital tube system "without being specifically sealed and hand-delivered</span>. The result is that the entire tube system, which all the lab systems are sent, was potentially contaminated," they said.


<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">"There was no advanced preparedness on what to do with the patient.</span> There was no protocol; there was no system. The nurses were asked to call the infectious disease department" if they had questions, they said.


<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">The nurses said they were essentially left to figure things out for themselves as they dealt with "copious amounts" of body fluids from Duncan while wearing gloves with no wrist tapes, gowns that did not cover their necks, and no surgical booties.</span> Protective gear eventually arrived, but not until three days after Duncan's admission to the hospital, they said.​

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They did this on purpose, trying to dump homosexual genes into our bloodlines. This mixed race baby has a greater chance of dating somebody black, passing on this characteristic to future generation. If the baby was white, she would likely date somebody white.

Her mother wants to move to an all black neighborhood, where the black men will be all over her when she grows up.

It is going from STD to genetic manipulation.
 
thoughtone said:
This just proves everything you and your ilk believe in politically is wrong.

Private sector can solve most problems.
Obamacare was wrong.
Government doesn't have the solutions.

I know you are scared shitless.
Opinions are different when they hit home.

Reform yourself!:smh:
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Government has everything under control. In fact, how about you continue to trust in government, and wait until ebola hits your city..

Meanwhile, I'm going to enjoy my last days watching the cowboys kick everybody ass.
 
actinanass said:
Government has everything under control. In fact, how about you continue to trust in government, and wait until ebola hits your city..

Meanwhile, I'm going to enjoy my last days watching the cowboys kick everybody ass.
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I really don't expect you to think any other way.

Texass political leadership being so fucked up as it is!

Where is Rick Perry during all of this?

The governor of the only state where Ebola is infecting people?

Leadership, make a real nice president huh?:lol:

The so called liberal main stream media is trying to pin this on President Obama.

The federal government has cured at least two people infected with this disease and no one has died from it under the CDC (government organization).

Where as in Texass, minus Obamacare turns away people who have deadly diseases from hospitals because they don't have medical insurance.

Free Market, yea!:smh:

Could you imagine a person or persons with Ebola being infectious in ATT Stadium, yelling and scream around all of those people?
 
actinanass said:
Government has everything under control. In fact, how about you continue to trust in government, and wait until ebola hits your city..

Meanwhile, I'm going to enjoy my last days watching the cowboys kick everybody ass.
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I really don't expect you to think any other way.

Texass political leadership being so fucked up as it is!

Where is Rick Perry during all of this?

The governor of the only state where Ebola is infecting people?

Leadership, make a real nice president huh?:lol:

The so called liberal main stream media is trying to pin this on President Obama.

The federal government has cured at least two people infected with this disease and no one has died from it under the CDC (government organization).

Where as in Texass, minus Obamacare turns away people who have deadly diseases from hospitals because they don't have medical insurance.

Free Market, yea!:smh:

Could you imagine a person or persons with Ebola being infectious in ATT Stadium, yelling and scream around all of those people?:hmm:
 


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Amber Vinson, the second Dallas health care worker to be stricken
with the the disease, had flown to Dallas from Cleveland on Monday
after caring for Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan.
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QueEx said:


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Amber Vinson, the second Dallas health care worker to be stricken
with the the disease, had flown to Dallas from Cleveland on Monday
after caring for Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan.
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Dallas nurse Amber Vinson
free of Ebola virus​


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October, 22, 2014
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Amber Vinson, a Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, is now free of the virus, according to her family.

Vinson arrived at Emory University Hospital last week for treatment. As of Tuesday night, officials with the hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ebola were not able to detect Ebola in Vinson's body, her family said in the statement.

Vinson "has also been approved for transfer from isolation," the family's statement read. "We all know that further treatment will be necessary as Amber continues to regain strength, but these latest developments have truly answered prayers and bring our family one step closer to reuniting with her at home," her mother, Debra Berry, said in a statement.
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