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A new analysis by researchers from Brown University and the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation has found that nonfatal injuries in the U.S. in the year 2013 cost more than $1.8 trillion.
And nearly all injures are preventable, said Dr. Mark Zonfrillo, an associate professor at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital.
The study, led by Zonfrillo, found that in 2013 about one in 10 individuals in the U.S. was treated for an injury at a hospital, resulting in an annual cost of $1.853 trillion. The findings were published on Monday, Oct. 8, in the journal Injury Epidemiology.
Annual price tag for non-fatal injuries in the US tops $1.8 trillion
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday October 08 2018, @08:37PM (1 child)
If you're talking about the Affordable Care Act, that wasn't single payer. Its basic design was proposed by the Heritage Foundation in the early 1990's as a capitalist alternative to Hillary Clinton's attempt at creating single payer health care in the US.
Really what's needed (assuming the goal is to make people healthy in a reasonably efficient way) is an NHS, similar to what works quite well throughout much of the British Commonwealth. But the US will never go for that because those $1.4 trillion are massive profits for the owners of the various industries involved in health care: hospital networks, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 09 2018, @09:51AM