Rick Scott closes TB hospital amid record TB outbreak in FL

[Miles]

I usually don't post articles like this, but I find this to be particularly distasteful.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

[Zioneer]

So he knew hundreds of people had already died and he still closed down the only real TB treatment facility? What a soulless jerk.

[King]

Don't worry, a masked bandit named El Rico has defrauded Medicare of a billion dollars and left it on the hospitals doorstep. Hooray!

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

2014 can't come quickly enough...

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

AG Holley is in the town next to me, and its a street or two away from me...right by the DMV...It is a huge facility, sitting their empty. It would be much more effective if a new hospital that can contain more people was built.

I always thought it was a mental facility up until last year actually. It looks the part of a prison, not a hospital.

[Holmes]

I always thought it was a mental facility up until last year actually. It looks the part of a prison, not a hospital.

Probably reflective of the era it was built.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I always thought it was a mental facility up until last year actually. It looks the part of a prison, not a hospital.

Probably reflective of the era it was built.

Back in the days before there were effective treatments, the way you contained TB was to effectively lock the sick away in sanitaria until they died so they didn't infect healthy people.

[minionofmidas]

So he knew hundreds of people had already died and he still closed down the only real TB treatment facility? What a soulless jerk.

"died"? What article you been reading, man? (Indeed, what planet you living on? TB is a slow killer.)

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Not letting people die? That's just big government!

[Zioneer]

So he knew hundreds of people had already died and he still closed down the only real TB treatment facility? What a soulless jerk.

"died"? What article you been reading, man? (Indeed, what planet you living on? TB is a slow killer.)

Okay, not hundreds, and I did forget that this article didn't mention it, but there's confirmed deaths from TB.

Still doesn't change the fact that Rick Scott knowingly tried to shut down the TB facility when he knew for a fact that there would be TB problems.