Mark Karlin: Allen West, Unvaccinated, Racked Up Tens of Thousands of Dollars in COVID Treatment Hospital Bills. He Should Pay It All.
Former Chairman of the Texas Republican Party Allen West Is Trying to Out Zombie Greg Abbott for the 2024 Lone Star Governor’s nomination. (Gage Skidmore)
October 14, 2021
BY MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH
Recently Allen West, former Texas GOP Chair, was hospitalized with COVID. He could have very likely prevented expensive hospitalization and medical treatment, but he’s in a race of the scorpions with current Lone Star Governor Greg Abbott, aka “Governor Death,” for the Republican 2022 nomination for that job.
West and Abbott are battling for the “Know Nothing” vote like a couple of Tyrannosaurus rexes. Abbott has the advantage because he is getting bills passed right and left to appeal to the anti-science religious voters and vote suppressors. However, don’t count West out. He can rise to daunting levels of hypocrisy and medieval positions.
He’s out of the hospital now, but while he was in there he was ranting and railing that drug companies making vaccines represented BIG Pharma and the ripping off of Americans through vaccinating them. West is too young to be on Medicare, but his multi-day hospital visit enriched Big Pharma and healthcare providers by tens of thousands of dollars more than if he had simply taken a vaccine — he was unvaccinated of course.
As an October 11 article in Forbes pointed out:
What West is propagating, however, is not science. It’s also untrue.
Instead of pushing for vaccinations, West asks, why is the government not “promoting protocols such as Regeneron monoclonal antibody infusion therapy? Why not promote … Hydroxychloroquine, and yes, Ivermectin?”
Curiously, West inveighs against the establishment by stating that “instead of enriching the pockets of Big Pharma and corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, we should be advocating the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.” [He also allegedly took hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.]
This begs the question, who makes the monoclonal antibody in question? Of course, it’s Regeneron, a large pharmaceutical firm. Moreover, a Covid-19 vaccine costs about $40 for two doses, while a monoclonal antibody treatment is $2,100, in addition to the Covid-19 hospital stay which can run to tens of thousands of dollars.
Here, Benjamin Franklin’s adage applies: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In all likelihood, had West been vaccinated, he would have avoided getting hospitalized and incurring costly medical bills. In addition, there’s an opportunity cost involved, whereby West is unnecessarily using up scarce hospital resources, which could have been deployed for other patients.
Ah, the Grand Hypocrisy Party. West’s hospital stay probably cost between $50,000 and a $100,000, and all of that would not have been needed, in all probability, if he took his two $40 COVID vaccine shots.
In short, West enriched the drug companies and medical facilities.
The only fair solution to such aberrant and deadly behavior is to hold persons such as West responsible for paying their own COVID hospitalization bills if they choose to go unvaccinated. Of course, that’s if they live, which, receiving top-flight care, West managed to do.
Let him and others go unvaccinated if they choose to do so, but any medical care is their responsibility to pay. No insurance companies, no Medicare, no Medicaid, just out-of-pocket cash.
So, Allen West, are you going to pony up and pay for your hospital bill? The economy of our society should not bear the burden of caring for your opportunistic trolling for votes — and being an imprimatur for infecting America.
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