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In reply to the discussion: Dallas County Commissioner says race and no insurance are why Duncan was sent away by hospital [View all]Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)16. We aren't talking about HCA.
We're talking about a specific claim that you insist is true because you say so.
Show me the data. Show me that white, insured people at that hospital with those symptoms are given extensive tests or are admitted. Because that would be the standard of proof required for this to elevate above the level of bullshit.
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Dallas County Commissioner says race and no insurance are why Duncan was sent away by hospital [View all]
pnwmom
Oct 2014
OP
Obamacare for a similar ER patient may well have prevented further contagion, that is a fact of
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#1
You don't think his lack of insurance affected his treatment? Of course it did. n/t
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#3
His lack of insurance could have kept them from running tests that would have given the diagnosis.
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#19
You should take anything and everything Price says with a huge grain of salt. n/t
tammywammy
Oct 2014
#4
I think it's likely Duncan's lack of insurance had an effect on his treatment, or lack thereof.
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#5
they knowingly sent an ebola man home with a check up, antibiotic (misdiagnosis, not non treatement)
seabeyond
Oct 2014
#11
There will never be proof. But when there is a financial incentive to deny treatment,
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#13
If a white, insured person had turned up there insisting that he'd recently been to LIBERIA,
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#18
Since he told them twice that he came from Liberia, they should have SUSPECTED Ebola.
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#47
You are implying they suspected ebola and sent him away due to lack of insurance and race.
Dreamer Tatum
Oct 2014
#50
No, I'm not. I'm saying they didn't dig deeply because their mission was to get him out.
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#52
The commissioner mentioned race, but I've been focusing on the lack of insurance.
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#58
I'm sure they are. Please present evidence that the one(s) who saw Duncan are racist.
Dreamer Tatum
Oct 2014
#61
I don't think they consciously suspected he had Ebola. I think they could have been motivated
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#49
She was white and so were the staff who turned her away. So where would the racism be? n/t
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#77
In other words, you got no specifics to back anything, but you just "know."
Dreamer Tatum
Oct 2014
#80
I've seen this personally. They come out and ask questions, say one needs to be hospitalized...
freshwest
Oct 2014
#42
Thanks for the reality check. It's hard to believe that DUers are so trustful that people
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#51
Race and being poor as a reason to get kicked out of hospital? Who'da ever thunk it?
Hoppy
Oct 2014
#23
and Dallas ready to prosecute him for getting sick. Guilty of getting sick while black.
whereisjustice
Oct 2014
#26
sigh.... no, I didn't use the sarcasm thingy because never occured to me that
whereisjustice
Oct 2014
#39
+1, never forget when they told us "we'll fix it later" lol, it's the lie that protects the lie
whereisjustice
Oct 2014
#44
I had tingling in my ear and right side of face which I attributed to my uncontrolled hypertension.
DemocratSinceBirth
Oct 2014
#56
We people who "aren't posting from the other side" inferred that from day 1. nt
valerief
Oct 2014
#71