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BJ
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BJ asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 7 years ago

How do think the Ebola scare will affect the health care system?

Do you think it will change the minds of the state governors that refuse to accept the Medicaid expansion into actually expanding Medicaid? If a patient has no insurance are these patients covered in any way or are the state residents paying the bill? Can a patient actually be denied medical care - it does cost a lot of money to treat. Thoughts?

Update:

Edit - I guess my main question is if the patient has no finances and gets hospitalized who is paying for the care - the general public?

Update 2:

I guess most people are afraid of this disease more than the fact that a non-citizen is being given high medical care and not concerned about the finances involved. Remember that the uninsured still help pay for any person unable to pay even though they are not insured themselves.

Interesting answers although none actually answered my question.

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  • 7 years ago
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    No, I don't think it will change their minds.

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    7 years ago

    The Ebola scare is hype without substance. I don't think it's going to matter.

  • 7 years ago

    How would expanding medicare do anything to reduce the cost of ebola?

  • 7 years ago

    I agree with you that the government must do something to prevent infected people from traveling to this country.

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  • 7 years ago

    no. ObamaCare is about insurance not health or health care.

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