How will Texans/Americans Pay for Vaccinations For Influenza, Enterovirus-d68, Ebola and Others

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with the current number of persons that have no healthcare insurance? Taxpayers will pick up the bills for hospitalizations. Texans income taxes are going to other states to provide ACA, expanded Medicaid there.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/10/09/enterovirus-d68-and-influenza-far-more-dangerous-than-ebola-in-u-s-say-top-infectious-diseases-physicians/

A panel of infectious diseases experts this morning expressed far more grave concerns for Americans about the risks of flu and enterovirus D68 than for Ebola virus disease. That’s noteworthy because the group included Bruce Ribner, MD, MPH, the Emory University Hospital doctor who led the team that successfully treated two Ebola-infected medical missionaries, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol.

Infectious diseases caregivers and public health professionals are gathered in Philadelphia through the weekend for the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), more commonly known as IDWeek 2014. (You can also follow attendees in real-time on Twitter at the hashtag, #IDweek.) The Society organized the press conference because of the very timely news about Ebola here, Europe, and West Africa, as well as children with respiratory disease caused by enterovirus D68.

Of these three diseases, one kills 3,000 to 49,000 Americans each year, yet is preventable: Influenza.

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1. Perhaps Texans should consider who they want to represent them in Congress next time more carefully

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3. Not only that, but the Governor they pick will also decide their fate. If they want to go full Koch

and live in an area where each person is hiding in a fortress from their neighbor, standing by and watching the inevitable police state develop they are raving about now, while the rich drive by without a care, they can stay home or vote for Abbott. The policies of the two could not be more different.

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2. Moot question. No ebola vaccine exists yet (for public use).

No Entero-68 vaccine exists.

Texans don't care, so long as they don't have to pay taxes that help poor people get vaccines.

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4. Reality: No healtcare insurance for those with diseases or preventative care; Texans pick up

the hospital costs through local tax bills now and in the future, without the Medicaid Expansion. That is part of the Extremist Teapublican Plan to shift raising state revenue from those that can pay (own property) over to the working families and poor.

Tax swaps will be detrimental to Texans. It will even effect our health.

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5. Texans DON'T care, so long as they don't have to pay taxes that help out anybody else but themselves

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6. Texas Leads the Nation in Flu Cases (2012-13 Flu Season).

http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/10/24/5274037/texas-leads-the-nation-in-flu.html

Three weeks into flu season, Texas tops the nation in patients reporting flu-like symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The report should raise a black flag for Texans and signal that it’s time to get a flu shot, said Anna Dragsbaek, president and CEO of The Immunization Partnership, a Houston-based nonprofit group focused on immunization issues.

Though the number of cases is low, the important message in the CDC’s report is that Texas is showing a higher level than other states, Dragsbaek said.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/10/24/5274037/texas-leads-the-nation-in-flu.html#storylink=cpy

more at link

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7. New GOP Ad: Republican Cuts Kill

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8. I had the flu vaccine last week.

I live with a respiratory therapist so I'm in the backfield behind the front line as far as germs and viruses are concerned. The good news is that it was free since I'm on indigent care.