Two days ago, the white house named Ron Klain as the coordinator of the administration's response to Ebola patients in the U.S. This decision has caused people to question the credentials of Klain himself, and question whether he's equipped to perform the job.
A main criticism given is that Klain has almost no medical experience at all, leading us to believe that the Obama administration views the current failures of controlling Ebola as mainly managerial and not pertaining to the treatment of the disease itself. Could this perhaps be telling us that the government is underestimating the threat of an outbreak in America? Skeptics also note that many of the mistakes made by the CDC in controlling Ebola are not due to lack of organization, rather a lack of preparedness by the U.S. healthcare system.
However, could we really have expected our government to be completely equipped for such a sudden epidemic? In my opinion, having a lead administrator in charge of response to Ebola patients can't possibly be harmful- regardless of medical credentials- as long as we have successful organizations such as the CDC treating patients to their best ability.
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