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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is going to come off as incredibly callous and I'm sorry about that, but I'm genuinely curious about whether this dude's health insurance is picking up the tab? The cost for care has to be in the tens of thousands per day--never mind the expense of a double-isolation helicopter, ambulance, etc.  Or does the CDC cover the cost (via the US taxpayers, I guess?) because they offered to take the case? Some insurers would probably balk at covering something like this, although it would probably be a legal nightmare in light of the public nature of the case.  I understand an insurer's obligation to provide medical care for citizens who incur injury while traveling abroad, but [b]it seems nuts to voluntarily enter a high-risk, disease-ridden area and contract a deadly illness and then put everyone else on the hook for your care[/b].[/quote]

People volunteer to go abroad on missions to provide health care (or other service) all the time.   Dr. Brantly didn't deliberately enter the Ebola hot zone -- do you really think he'd have brought his wife and 2 kids if he knew it was happening??

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/02/health/ebola-kent-brantly/index.html
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Brantly went to Liberia with his wife and two children last year to serve a two-year fellowship through Samaritan's Purse post-residency program.
He was there initially to practice general medicine. But when the Ebola outbreak began, he took on the role of medical director for the Samaritan's Purse Ebola Consolidated Case Management Center in Monrovia. It's there that he tested positive for the virus, according to the evangelical Christian relief charity.[/quote][/quote]

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