White House wants to put Americans at risk of getting Ebola?

NY Times:

White House Presses States to Reverse Ebola Quarantine

The Obama administration has pushed the governors of New York and New Jersey to reverse their decision ordering all medical workers returning from West Africa who had contact with Ebola patients to be quarantined, an administration official said.

While these medical professionals deserve some credit for putting themselves at risk to help others, the rest of the country did not sign on to that risk and it makes sense to quarantine them for a few weeks so that we are not trying to run down all the people they have exposed to the disease at some point.  The fact is that the administration has yet to make a persuasive argument against the quarantines.  At best they say it is an inconvenience to the those who have put themselves at risk.