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It's absurd that you can be jailed for not getting treatment in a country where healthcare tends to be so expensive.

• Fezzik 4y ago
  TB treatment appears to be relatively inexpensive, even including physician visits: https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/infographic/ltbi-treatment-costs.htm https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/infographic/ltbi-treatme...
• King-Aaron 4y ago
  https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/596/dsmGaKWMeHXe9QuJtq_ys30PNfTGnMsRuHuo_MUzGCg.jpg https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/596/dsm...
• smt88 4y ago
  It would be absurd if this were common or if they did it for, say, Covid. But this is an extreme case where the woman spent years defying court orders to either get treatment or to isolate. No one was forcing her to get treatment, and there are many income-adjusted means of getting health care in this country (including free health care). It's likely her county would have paid for her treatment if she couldn't afford it, considering the court order. It would be much more absurd if this woman were allowed to continue spreading a serious illness to people who didn't know they got it and couldn't afford treatment. The harm to the guilty woman is much smaller than the harm she has caused others. She may have even killed people.
• omao 4y ago
  Did you even read the article she was offered the treatment and refused, and if you click on the supporting links you can see that in Pierce County they basically go through many steps to insure any who wants treatment can get even if you’re not insured so it basically free. Also she started the treatment and stopped which is worse because it can lead to resistance and she violated a court order for isolation and was caught after a car crash that could have easily spread the disease
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