Ebola? Sorry, Your Health Insurance Doesn't Cover That!

So, what have we learned about treating Ebola patients?

If you want to recover you'll need:

1. Lots of plasma.

2. A blood transfusion.

3. Some blood from a recovered Ebola patient that thus possesses the antibodies.

4. A number of experimental treatment drugs.

5. An acute care facility.

6. Ebola protective gear for all your caregivers.

7. An extended stay of time in the hospital.

8. Etc.

If you get all that, then, it appears, that recovery here in America is 100% certain .. though there will be related lingering effects that will require subsequent treatment.

Duncan, the Liberian man in Dallas, he didn't get all that .. and he died!

This type of care is super-duper expensive!

So, does your health insurance cover all this?

Does your premiums pay for this?

What about those cheap Obamacare plans -- do they cover everything here?

Insurance carriers don't cover everything you might imagine.

And, when they realize they need to, up go the premiums -- hope you can afford it.

It's an issue, for sure.

So, here's another good intelligent real concern of the great majority of the American people with respect to Ebola and preventing an Ebola epidemic: it may be too expensive for many to get well!

Enter the U.S. government and its taxpayers -- they'll help cover the costs. Yeah, right. I'm not seeing a whole lot of people wanting the government to pay for what insurance won't cover.

A word to the wise.

Heya OG. :2wave: This might play into a little of that.



AFL-CIO Calls On Obama To Set Mandatory Ebola Safety Standards In The Workplace.....

The president of the AFL-CIO labor federation sent letters to the White House and Congress on Tuesday demanding that national workplace safety standards be put in place for workers who could be exposed to Ebola. In his letters, Richard Trumka called for "enforceable" guidelines to help protect health care workers who could come into contact with infected patients. He recommended that those standards be developed jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Trumka asked that President Barack Obama "take immediate executive action" to have the standards put in place.

"Existing protocols, standards and guidelines, and adherence to them, are deficient," Trumka wrote to Obama. "The failures in the response have put dozens of additional health care workers at risk, and potentially exposed many other workers and members of the public. .... Immediate action is needed." The AFL-CIO adds a powerful voice to the individual unions, such as National Nurses United and the American Federation of Teachers, that have already said that hospitals are poorly equipped to handle Ebola....snip~

AFL-CIO Calls On Obama To Set Mandatory Ebola Safety Standards In The Workplace

Ontologuy said:

So, what have we learned about treating Ebola patients?

If you want to recover you'll need:

1. Lots of plasma.

2. A blood transfusion.

3. Some blood from a recovered Ebola patient that thus possesses the antibodies.

4. A number of experimental treatment drugs.

5. An acute care facility.

6. Ebola protective gear for all your caregivers.

7. An extended stay of time in the hospital.

8. Etc.

If you get all that, then, it appears, that recovery here in America is 100% certain .. though there will be related lingering effects that will require subsequent treatment.

Duncan, the Liberian man in Dallas, he didn't get all that .. and he died!

This type of care is super-duper expensive!

So, does your health insurance cover all this?

Does your premiums pay for this?

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What about those cheap Obamacare plans -- do they cover everything here?

Insurance carriers don't cover everything you might imagine.

And, when they realize they need to, up go the premiums -- hope you can afford it.

It's an issue, for sure.

So, here's another good intelligent real concern of the great majority of the American people with respect to Ebola and preventing an Ebola epidemic: it may be too expensive for many to get well!

Enter the U.S. government and its taxpayers -- they'll help cover the costs. Yeah, right. I'm not seeing a whole lot of people wanting the government to pay for what insurance won't cover.

A word to the wise.

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Don't worry about it, if you get Ebola the U.S. government will pay for your health care.

In any case it's very unlikely that you'll get Ebola.

And so if you have the means and get infected while living in Liberia you'd do just about anything to reach America. Too bad our govt will accept your lies and let you in. Proof....Duncan.

shrubnose said:

Don't worry about it, if you get Ebola the U.S. government will pay for your health care.

In any case it's very unlikely that you'll get Ebola.

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Yes more "im not paying for THEM" propaganda in Health care.

HC is not a Gucci hand bag. It is something we all need at all times. No limits, no bills, no corrupt Drs or CEO's.

Free Universal Healthcare

Just like every other western nation

So what shall we do?

shrubnose said:

Don't worry about it, if you get Ebola the U.S. government will pay for your health care.

In any case it's very unlikely that you'll get Ebola.

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The policies aren't restricted as to what condition you get, as far as I know. Doesn't matter. There IS a restriction, which has always been in existence for ins. policies, that they don't pay for experimental treatments.

As for premiums going up, the individual's premium won't go up, since it's now sort of a group policy. The groups' premiums will go up, primarily for those over 50 (the only group that the ins. cos. can discriminate against now - one of the two loopholes; the other loophole is restricting the care providers available to you).