(Rick Scott Is TOAST)-This is what healthcare looks like when austerity trumps public health policy. [View all]

[kpete]

SUN JUL 08, 2012 AT 05:17 PM PDT
Florida Tuberculosis Cover-up: Rick Scott is toast
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..believing the outbreak affected only their underclass, the health officials made a conscious decision not to not tell the public, repeating a decision they had made in 2008, when the same strain had appeared in an assisted living home for people with schizophrenia.”

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/worst-tb-outbreakin-20-years-kept-secret/nPpLs/


But here is where shit gets real in a hurry. The CDC issued a report advising the state of taking concerted action against the strain. But the problem is that nobody was paying attention. You see Governor Rick Scott announced the closure of the A.G. Holley State Hospital and the downsizing of the State Health Department only nine days prior to the CDC advisory. A.G Holley State hospital had been responsible for treating the most difficult of these strains. And it turns out that not only did they close the hospital, they closed it six months early. You got to get that austerity on as soon as possible don't you know.

So here is the toll: 13 dead. 99 infected most of whom were poor black men. Over 3000 exposed in homeless shelters around the Jacksonville area.

The monetary toll? Up to $500 per patient to treat. Up to $275,000 per patient if it becomes drug resistant.

MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/08/1107620/-Florida-Tuberculosis-Cover-up-Scott-Walker-is-toast


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