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- Once again...the Media playing politics with a tragedy. First it was gun rights be damned! Now it's "If only they had Obamacare!" Stop grazing in the field of media spin & hype. There is already more than $4m set aside in a charity for the victims. Most of that will be gobbled up by the hospitals.
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- Get shot in a massacre.
Have to be hospitalized.
Get billed for 2 million dollars.
Only in America. - Reply to this comment
- "Medical System Victimizing Aurora Survivors For A Second Time"
If it wasn't bad enough already Aurora survivors like Caleb Medley are now being told they owe outrageous amounts of money for hospital bills to be exact 2 million dollars just for him alone! Are you kidding me this makes me sick that the movie theater where they were shot isn't taking any responsibility for what happened in their cinema. Sure it wasn't their fault but it still happen inside of their Theater and they should have the decency to assist with some or all of these people's medical cost who can't afford to pay their medical bill. Come on now where is the love and support Aurora's Mayor said would be given to such victims? WE REMEMBER! The only thing such victims will remember is the cost they will have to pay for the rest of their life even with the support from good samaritans donating money why isn't the city of Aurora, Cinema or hospital stepping up to make this right? Please voice your opinion and let the city of Aurora and hospital know we will REMEMBER how victims are treated of such tragic events! - Reply to this comment
- The shooter *started* the violence; our failed medical system keeps it going.
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- Wait, why did they try to give the girl CPR? Wasn't she shot?
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- I am surprised a country as great as the USA does not have a criminal compensation fund to cover situations like this, but I guess I am more shocked the hospital would even think of charging anyone under the circumstances.We may not have the best health care here in Canada but we would not be charged for treatment under the same circumstances and yes we pay for our health care by paying taxes on just about everything we buy in addition to our regular income tax, but it would never add up to 2 million dollars in payments for the regular consumer.Wishing a speedy recovery to all those poor victims of such a senseless act.Maybe Universal health care is not such a bad idea,but maybe paid into the Government instead of private insurance companies who are profit motivated and then The Government could regulate what the medical profession is allowed to charge. just saying
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- Please, Americans - use this as a wake-up call to recognize how horribly abusive your Health Care system is to the vulnerable people in your society. Even if you have insurance, the co-pays nickle and dime you to death, unless you are wealthy...then you can just shrug it off, because you are not ruined.
However, the majority of lower-income people *would* be ruined by something like this, and this happens on a daily basis in America - we just do not see it altogether - en masse - happening to a large number of people publicly - like with this tragic event.
The real tragedy happens NOW, as people lucky enough to live will find their quality of life unluckily rapidly deteriorating as they attempt to cope with the expenses.
The majority of lower income people could never afford to insure everyone in their family. It is pathetic and ridiculous, especially since this country relies heavily on the labor that lower income people do. It is not the CEOs and rich people who keep the streets clean and fixed, who nurse people, who teach people, who fix things, who make those CEOs and rich people richer by being Mass Consumers.
Why can't you see that your system is so heavily exploiting the middle and lower classes? Grinding them down, making all the "Right Sizing" and "Down Sizing" and "Outsourcing" at the expense of the majority of hardworking American citizens - while pocketing Record Profits and bonuses for the people who have been truly abusing "the system" of public welfare for greedy but stupid corporations?
It is so stupid - if *you* go bankrupt, nobody will give you Credit for 7 years...if you are a company, though, they cannot wait to give you another chance to blow the public bailouts.
Please, America....recognize that this kind of Post-tragedy Tragedy would not happen in a country that values ALL of its citizens and supports them ALL by Universal Health care that is accessible even to the poorest among us.
The NEW American Dream: work all your life, do all the correct things, get Down-sized, lose your income, lose your insurance, lose everything you worked for trying to stay alive when a disease or a man-made tragedy strikes you. - Reply to this comment
- Ok perhaps this guy should have insurance but the real issue is that he shouldn't have to pay medical bills for a crime against him!! That is just wrong.
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- Medical cost will NEVER be reasonable until WE CAP THE AMOUNT THE HOSPITALS, DOCTORS, LABS, PHARMACEUTICAL AND INSURANCE COMPANIES CAN CHARGE!!
There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for the medical and insurance fields to continue to rape US citizens with astronomical rates and fees.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! - Reply to this comment
- Don't get me wrong for asking this, but why didn't he have insurance? Was he unemployed or was he one of these people that opposed the health care law? Just trying to understand why he didn't have insurance.
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