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n2doc's JournalGun injuries cost Americans $730 million a year in hospital bills
Americans paid more than $6.6 billion over eight years to care for victims of gun violence, according to a new tally of hospital bills. And U.S. taxpayers picked up at least 41% of that tab.
Thats just the tip of the iceberg, say the authors of a study published this week in the American Journal of Public Health. Their sum does not include the initial and very costly bill for gunshot victims care in emergency rooms. Nor does it include hospital readmissions to treat complications or provide follow-up care. The cost of rehabilitation, or of ongoing disability, is not included either.
These are big numbers, and this is the lowest bound of these costs, said Sarabeth A. Spitzer, a Stanford University medical student who co-wrote the study. We were surprised at the scale, she added.
That, arguably, makes gun-injury prevention a public health priority, Spitzer said. The GOPs healthcare reform measure would reduce federal contributions toward Medicaid, which foots roughly 35% of the hospital bills for gunshot victims. The GOP plan would also cut payments to the hospitals that absorb much of the cost of caring for self-paying (in other words, uninsured) patients, whose hospital bills accounted for about 24% of the $730 million-per-year tab.
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http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-gun-injury-costs-20170322-story.html
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