“Were it not for advances in modern emergency medicine, a vastly larger number would have expired.”
How many of them are sorry that they survived?
BTW, this sort of thing raises the costs of all of of our insurance.
Just kidding, it doesn’t. I’m sure that you can guess how many of these victims had MetLife, Aetna, etc.
Cook County’s yearly bill for uninsured shooting victims hospitalization goes into high eight figures. That is for real. Guess who pays that in taxes.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-gun-violence-medical-costs-met-20170720-story.html
Oh yeah, we pay for it and once we save them, they go on to more crime.