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Posted on 04/02/2017 10:05:09 AM PDT by rktman
It's difficult to do a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of American gun culture. It fuels a multibillion-dollar industry employing around 142,000, and it kills more than 30,000 and injures an additional 70,000 annually.
A new study by researchers at Stanford University tries to come to grips with one of the less frequently mentioned costs of gun culture -- the hospitalization expenses resulting from firearm injuries.
The study tracked a total of 267,265 patients who were admitted to a hospital for firearm-related injuries from 2006 through 2014. Costs for initial inpatient hospitalization were about $730 million annually, or a total of $6.6 billion in constant 2014 dollars. Much of that expense landed on the public in the form of Medicaid, Medicare or unreimbursed expenses that the health-care system disperses among consumers.
(Excerpt) Read more at bloomberg.com ...
What is the cost of the unhealthy gay lifestyle?
Can we tax it?
Someone needs to alert Vermont and Maine about this.
They don't want to go there.
I would ask “Where do most of these gun-related deaths and accidents occur?” Is in urban areas? Predominantly inner-city, black neighborhoods? Where?
If you actually crunch the numbers, most of the homicides are by blacks and Hispanics.
About 95% of “gun violence” can be blamed on the gang culture, but you will never progressives say a word about that.
more fake news from Sandturd U
unintentional falls: 31,959
motor vehicles: 33,736
accidental poisonings: 42,032
You could just as well said "in cities controlled by the Democrat party."
“Southern”?
Do they mean Southern Chicago?
Upshot is that every gun related casualty costs $6300 average.
What the study & article falls to address is the orders of magnitude more casualties that DON’T happen because of lawful possession & appropriate brandishing to dissuade criminals. Those work out to a health coverage savings of around $1T annually.
Didn’t someones “famous/fabulous” daughter gradiate from there? Wif absolutely ZERO skills.
You cannot control the population unless you disarm them.
Hmmm. Pretty sure LeRoy Brown died of knife wounds. Even though he carried a gun in his pocket for fun.
Lets get serious for a moment. “.....The study tracked a total of 267,265 patients who were admitted to a hospital for firearm-related injuries from 2006 through 2014.....”
A large percentage of firearms homicides are suicide related. Not every suicide attempt is successful. I would wager that a firearm suicide attempt that isn’t quite successful would entail a lot over very expensive brain surgery.
How many of these quarter million hospital patients were related to police justified shooting?
How many of these quarter million hospital patients were related to gang violence/drug deals gone bad?
The real dollar amount is probably more related to suicide prevention, criminal/gang/drug activity than it is to firearms.
How many of these quarter million hospital
Why is it that rural households might have all sorts of guns but they are seldom used in crimes, while in certain urban neighborhoods it is open warfare with gangs shooting each other and bystanders? Do guns just have this magical power over some people or is there a cultural/moral problem going on that no one wants to talk about.
I won’t give the site a click but the “southern” angle does appear to be a gratuitous dig. I wouldn’t expect any less from them.
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Hmmm. Sadly, I knew two firearm suicides that were very successful.
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