Biden: U.S. Needs a Hospital That Can Handle Ebola In ‘Every State of the Union’

CNSNews.com ^ | November 14, 2014 | Penny Starr

[ansel12]

No need to spend tax payer dollars building elaborate Ebola treatment outfits. Those are expensive because of the inordinate amount of precautions needed.

Any decent hospital should be able to treat Ebola, we don't need to build 46 more super centers to treat Sars and worst, we just need to avoid being caught totally flat footed like we were in Dallas.

[GeronL]

great idea!

Send that proposal with schematics to FEMA and the Defense Department.

[entropy12]

Correct you are. I worked 23 years in private industry and 12 in a government funded outfit. The waste of tax payer funds in government outfits is beyond belief. Coming from a survive by making profit environment of private industry and then working in a place where only thing that matters is how to spend the funds available, it really made an impression on me. But I should’nt complain, I was able to retire early!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

All 57 of them!!

[DAC21]

Ebola won't come to the USA let alone spread. President Odunga said as much. Therefore why would we need 57 Hospitals to treat a non existent disease in the USA?

[kearnyirish2]

Here in NJ government workers (at all levels) have succeeded in chasing out the private sector and those taxpayers able to follow their jobs to less-costly states; on the federal level they just chase jobs to other countries. Eventually it just collapses; no money for new government employees to provide services due to the costs of the retired former employees.

[RightFighter]

This is a precursor to single-payer for the inevitable collapse of the insurance industry due to Grubercare. Once they have these hospitals set up in each state, they’ll be under federal control, and they’ll eventually become the only place to get care for ANYTHING.

[dalereed]

If they are going to allow those basterds in here make them all stay i DC!!!

[Paleo Conservative]

What a dolt. If Ebola ever took hold you’d need a lot more than one hospital in every State that could handle it.

Why does Biden's home state of Delaware need its own biosafety level 4 hospital rooms. It's a very small state that is very close to other much more populous states. Why should Rhode Island have one, since it is commuting distance from Boston. My state of Texas probably should have at least 2 or 3 such facilities given the geographical size and the fact that it has an estimated 27 million population.

[plain talk]

Perhaps he could start with getting rid of Obamacare which is a burden on hospitals.

[Gen.Blather]

Let’s see, positive air ventilation, Category 5 suits for all workers and 20 workers per infected patient...hum, carry the two, add four, that would be about a billion per building, not including the nurses and doctors which are billed separately.

[Don Corleone]

Biden: U.S. Needs a Hospital That Can Handle Ebola In ‘Every State of the Union’

All 57?

[TigersEye]

Why, is it going to get that bad and they know it?

[Lorianne]

That too.

But it really is all a moot point if there were a real outbreak. We’d need lots and lots of facilities and containment areas. Not even a 2 or 3 in each of the larger States would do it.

[lepton]

Well, certainly a lot of regional ones. RI can use the one at Boston.

That said, details... This administration has become edept at misappropriating funds to “soft” applications to their cronies.

[Sacajaweau]

People should be quarantined “in Place”. They’re getting drips and not much more. Send in a ONE trained nurse or doctor 24/7.

[lepton]

A dozen people in NYC alone could cause devastation to the surrounding areas just from people leaving the city.

[ansel12]

Yep if there had been an attack, we were obviously unprepared, what we need to prevent is returning to that same state of unpreparedness after 5 or 10, or 15 years of nothing happening.

It is a shame to see this cycle happen over and over.

[right way right]

Uncle Joe wants to change the subject.
There is not very much good news to reflect back on so, how about Ebola? Anyone? Ebola?

[Amagi]

No, JoJo.
We need to take steps to keep ebola out.
Oops, too late for that one.