More generally, policymakers tend to be concerned about their constituents and taxpayers over those who are neither.

Arguably, that's the who point of a representative democracy.

Threats to those with means, but anyway, we're led to believe this should not happen in medicine, a life is a life. It's all very sad anyway.

I expect that's the specific reason "The Hot Zone" and "The Coming Plague" name the victims.

That is, rather than "An African man had Ebola" they would say "Arthur Obama had Ebola".

There's a whole world of difference between the two.