Gun shot wounds add to healthcare cost.

[battle_sight_zero]

Boy the liberal propaganda never stops. http://m.9news.com/topstory/article?a=321267&f=1272


Should say criminals committing crimes are adding to health costs.


Member please post the text. Cell phone won't allow me to do so.

[TheBelly]

WASHINGTON - Gunshot wounds and deaths cost Americans at least $12 billion a year in court proceedings, insurance costs and hospitalizations paid for by government health programs, according to a recent study.


"I think people probably don't understand that as well as they ought to," said Ted Miller, author of a study that found that gunfire deaths and injuries incur a direct societal cost of $32 per gun.


About 20 years ago, Miller calculated the costs to society of shooting injuries and deaths with funding from the National Institute of Justice. He decided to run the numbers again this year after the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.


"I was surprised," Miller said. "Back in 1994, the costs of drunk driving were substantially higher, but it has reversed."


Miller found that total costs per injury had at least doubled or come close for medical care, psychiatric care, court cases, insurance and emergency transport. For example, in 1992, medical care for a fatal shooting averaged $14,500. In 2010, that number reached $28,700.


He found that medical care in 2010 cost $3.2 billion for 105,177 deaths and injuries. In 1992, medical care cost $3 billion for 171,800 deaths and injuries, including 31,674 BB gun shootings, which were not included in the 2010 numbers.


According to government statistics analyzed by Miller for the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, costs to the government in 2010 broke down this way:


$5.4 billion in tax revenue lost because of lost work
$4.7 billion in court costs
$1.4 billion in Medicare and Medicaid costs for firearm injuries and deaths
$180 million in mental health care costs for gunshot victims
$224 million in insurance claims processing
$133 million for responding to shooting injuries
Miller also found that Medicaid covers 28% of hospital admissions for firearm injuries, 37% of hospital days and 42% of medical costs. But in another study, he found that even if people weren't on Medicaid when they were injured, about 8% ultimately enroll in Medicaid after their injuries. "So about half of the medical costs borne by Medicaid may be the best estimate," he said.


A 2012 study by the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville found that 79% of gunshot victims in greater Nashville were enrolled in Medicaid. That compared with 45% of Medicaid enrollment for all other emergency room patients. African-American patients were three times more likely to be gunshot victims than were white patients, the study showed.


Manish Sethi, a trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University and a researcher for the study, said his team decided to look at the numbers after seeing "a bunch of African-American kids with gunshot wounds" coming through the emergency room. "We have to do something."

[battle_sight_zero]

Thank-you


Like how they added BB guns injuries too the mix.

[sniper7]

I fail to see how medical care for a firearm death is $30000.

[BPTactical]

And this is what we shall face, attack's from every angle regardless.

[Lurch]

Well if Obama just cut one vacation out of his schedule he could pay for this no problem.

[Teufelhund]

Gunshot wounds and deaths cost Americans at least $12 billion a year in court proceedings, insurance costs and hospitalizations paid for by government health programs, according to a recent study.

THIS is the root of the problem. Gun shot wounds wouldn't cost the rest of us a dime if half the country wasn't suckling at the government teat for this newly-imagined right to healthcare. You don't have a right to someone else's property (e.g. money), regardless of your need. That is the definition of socialism.

[merl]

well it makes sense actually (though I'd dispute numbers, gang members dont have lost work expenses. the numbers he'll quote are those heavily inflated no insurance numbers). gang members are the majority of shootings and they rarely have insurance. They also don't generally pay bills so the gov ends up paying.

but is the problem the guns, or the criminals using them...

[Kraven251]

"We have to do something."

You get one. The next time you get to bleed out in the waiting room.

[cstone]

Bath tub falls cost health care providers how much?

Wasn't it the liberal, hippies in the 60's who chanted "Question everything, question authority?"

[lowbeyond]

Yea and? So do:

Football
Baseball
Basketball
Skiing
Running
Cars
Alcohol
Pot
Prescription Drugs
Swimming Pools
Camping
Hiking
Bike Riding
hell every single sport, and every activity under the sun.

[TheBelly]

GSW = hospital time?

In other news, the sky is blue today.