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Ebola in Texas

A man sickened with Ebola in Texas has already made international news and the implications of case have multiple implications not only in healthcare, but in society and politics as well. The first and most important thing is that Texas grossly underfunds public health in the state.  Under funding public health care means that citizens are at higher risk for falling victim to an epidemic disease like Ebola because there are insufficient resources (including training for the emergency room hospital workers to be able to recognize the disease's symptoms) to respond to the epidemic early and contain it. Texas Republicans have cut back public health funding, undoubtedly because they see it as big government, to the point where the state with one of the fastest growing populations in the country ranks 34th nationally , according to a 2013 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation . This is not new news. Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis gets the gift of a new talking poi

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