re: Taking in foreign Ebola patients...

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what reason, under the guidelines of the Constitution, does the US have to spend money to treat foreign nationals with a deadly infectious disease.

tia.

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Easy. National Security.

Did you actually read the Memo? Because if you didn't, you're showing your hackness. If you did, you're showing your inability to understand the English language. Let's review:

"Issue.... The greatest impediment to persuading other countries to send medical teams to the Ebola-afflicted countries in West Africa has been the lack of assured medical evacuation and treatment for responders who may be infected with Ebola virus."

So what that means is, other countries are hesitant to send health care professionals to West Africa without assurances that they will have proper medical evacuation and treatment should they become infected. They're not talking about people from West Africa being medical evacuated... they're talking about doctors and nurses sent there to help. Okk... you follow? Good...

"Germany is so far the only country to accept non-citizens for Ebola treatment; Norway has offered to accept EU citizens in addition to its own.... Since it is several hours closer to West Africa by air, Europe is also a preferable treatment destination for medical reasons. We are exploring other destinations as well, and establishment of the Monrovia.. Unit and Sierra Leone facility by the UK."

That part is self-explanatory.

Then it discusses "cases where the United States will be the logical treatment destination for non-citizens... employees and contractors of US agencies and programs, NGOs and private firms based in the US, UN staff permanently employed at the UN..."

That means non-citizens working for NGOs like the American Red Cross, Catholic Relief Services, Care USA, Doctors of the World, Episcopal Relief non-governmental organizations who send their people to help victims of Ebola.

The reasoning being we need to stop the spread of Ebola in West Africa and prevent it from spreading. The way to do that is send people there to build hospitals and care for them, teach them, hopefully cure them. If we cannot guarantee these organizations that their people will get evacuation and medical treatment, then fewer will go, more will get sick, more will die and more will be spread.

The memo doesn't discuss bringing in random sick people from Africa. I concerns getting evacuation and help to people who go there to help so that more will go.

National Security.

Very simple.

See.. that's not hard was it?