Shooting of the Day
Shooting of the Day
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https://www.theguardian.com/worl…
"Patients pay a high price for being shot. On average, those treated in emergency departments incurred $5,254 in charges. If they stayed in hospital overnight, charges were far higher – $95,887 on average."
"Patients who stayed overnight in hospital were more likely to be discharged to expensive rehabilitation facilities. About a third of inpatient gunshot victims were discharged to another medical facility and incurred costs of $179,565 on average."
- disgusting.mugwart
- Plus you would now have a preexisting condition.R_Kercz
- so fucked upfadein11
- .imbecile
- I wonder if that crowdfunding campaign, which raised $1M+, will go toward this.monospaced
- Totally bullshiti_was
- this makes me so mad.Ramanisky2
- sure, if you didnt have medical insurance, which the majority of people have.CygnusZero4
- i stayed in a hospital over night. cost me $50.CygnusZero4
- Well.. insurance aside, how on Earth does a nightly charge ever amount to nearly $100k? I know it's bullshit puffery, but it's.. well, totally bullshit.detritus
- it's a statistic used in healthcare to differentiate a short treatment for longer. it could be months...kingsteven
- also including the cost of treatment for patients (not just the cost of a bed) so you can assume with more severe injuries.kingsteven
- ER services and intensive care, with lots of specialists can rack up to huge costs compared to just staying a night in a hospital.monospaced
- it's better to be killed in the US than surviving and buried in debt.Beeswax
- @Beeswax what the hell are you saying? what a disgusting statement. WTF!chukkaphob
- Can other countries freeze out US somehow? Set up a list of requirements to be counted as part of civilized world, or isolate them like north korea otherwisedrgs
- Beeswax is right, wonder what percentage of those victims will take their own lives after being crippled with debt?PhanLo
- How many of the dead would have preferred to be alive and have to deal with the debt... anyway, the costs are insane. my 2yr old daughter racked up a $1500 billslinky
- for a midnight emergency room visit after reaction to bug bite. doctor did nothing but talk to use to about 20 min and said she would be ok... not meds, testsslinky
- or anything... just discharged after talking for 20 min and costs $1500+. and we waited 1 hr to be seen and 2 hours to be discharged.slinky
- Slinky. That is insane. My son has asthma, so when he was younger, we'd be at the hospital all the time, often staying over 2-3 nights at a time...PhanLo
- ...cost us nothing.PhanLo
- @slinky, it's best to avoid the emergency room and just go to urgent care where you won't get gougedmonospaced
- mono, we had no choice at the moment. in hind-sight we should have waited until next day but we had no idea what bit her and why her foot was swelling so badslinky
- Gun ownership is a right, yet treating bullet wounds is a privilege.Gnash
- +1, Gnashdetritus
- +1, Gnash too.PhanLo
- +1, gonna borrow that quote :-)formed
- #Make Guns Wounds Great Againutopian