Gunshot Wounds Cost U.S. Hospitals Nearly $7 Billion Over 9 Years

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Gunshot Wounds Cost U.S. Hospitals Nearly $7 Billion Over 9 Years
Total price tag may be much higher, research suggests
 
By Robert Preidt
 

TUESDAY, March 21, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Hospital care for gunshot wounds cost the United States about $6.6 billion over a nine-year period, and total costs are likely much higher, researchers report.

"There is a high cost for these injuries, especially because they are preventable," study author Sarabeth Spitzer, a medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine, said in a university news release.

https://medlineplus.gov/news/fullstory_164204.html

[Joe Wooten]

Gunshot Wounds Cost U.S. Hospitals Nearly $7 Billion Over 9 Years
Total price tag may be much higher, research suggests
 
By Robert Preidt
 

TUESDAY, March 21, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Hospital care for gunshot wounds cost the United States about $6.6 billion over a nine-year period, and total costs are likely much higher, researchers report.

"There is a high cost for these injuries, especially because they are preventable," study author Sarabeth Spitzer, a medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine, said in a university news release.

https://medlineplus.gov/news/fullstory_164204.html

Crock of crapola. 95%+ of those shootings are from the continual gang warfare in the ghettos and barrios. Banning guns will nto stop that. In fact, it will allow it to spread to the more law-abiding areas which will be left defenseless.