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Rose Siding

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Tue Jul 24, 2012, 09:45 PM Jul 2012

CO wounded "will be struggling with these hospital bills for the rest of their lives" [View all]

First the very good and somehow, for me at least, healing news:

Hugo Jackson Medley was born at 7:11 a.m. local time on Tuesday, according to University of Colorado Hospital spokesman Dan Weaver. Both mother and child are doing well.
His mother, Katie Medley, escaped the Colorado movie theater attack uninjured...


Welcome, little baby.

Sadly, the new father lays in a medically induced coma with severe injuries. And then there's this:

Like many of the young 20-somethings at the movies that terrible night, the Medleys have no health insurance, according to their friend West.

“Caleb and his family have no insurance, and these hospital bills are going to be well into the hundreds if not thousands if not millions. Caleb and Katie will be struggling with these hospital bills for the rest of their lives,” West wrote on the website.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/24/12931402-miracle-baby-of-the-aurora-tragedy?lite


Pretty damned Exceptional, America.


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