TB patient has violated health orders for a year – could jail be next?
While this person should definitely get treatment or at the least isolate per the court order... Why is this treatment that can cost from $50,000-$500,000 something a person can be burdened with by court order?<p>The CDC and relevant laws around TB only have the government cover treatment &quot;if you are unable to pay&quot;, so if someone had $150,000 in their 401k and got Tb with charges of $149,000 their progress towards any sort of financial stability could be brought back to effectively zero.<p>Even if they were low income and covered by an ACA plan, those usually have pretty high coinsurance percents so this is still a very possible scenario.<p>This is clearly a case where treating anyone with TB in this country is a public good and should never burden the individual to such an extent (or at all, really).