Is This A Great Country, Or What?

The United States of America in one tweet: Get shot in a mass shooting, go to hospital, try and leave early because the debt would kill you instead. Complete and utter perversity. https://t.co/xbSwsb6C3O

— Christian Christensen (@ChrChristensen) January 25, 2023

I can go on and on about various services or goods that aren’t typically covered by insurance as well as those that are often inadequately covered (like mental health care & wheelchairs).https://t.co/sKrpOFto9v

— Dania Palanker (@DaniaPal) January 25, 2023

JAMA

Nonfatal gunshot wounds (GSWs) account for most firearm injuries in the US, yet most firearm violence studies focus on deaths, including those about mass shootings. Every day, more than 230 people sustain a nonfatal GSW in the US, or 1 every 7 minutes. The clinical importance of nonfatal GSW injuries by assault is amplified because most fatalities (61.2%) are suicides and most deaths (76.6%) occur outside the hospital. For every firearm-related fatality of all types in the US (not just those from CPMSs), 2.5 injured individuals are treated for nonlethal GSWs. Historically, for mass shootings alone, 1.5 to 1.6 patients sustain nonfatal GSWs for every death.