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posted by martyb on Monday October 08 2018, @06:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-you-think-healthcare-is-expensive,-try-going-without-it dept.

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: 2) by sjames on Tuesday October 09 2018, @02:02AM (2 children)

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday October 09 2018, @02:02AM (#746246) Journal

    Citation needed. "Pair of Babies" is not useful even as a Google term.

    But at this point, if you're trying to raise funds for something insurance won't cover, odds are you'll need to leave the country anyway to be able to afford it.

    Note: if you're talking about Alfie Evans, no doctor anywhere in the world suggested anything but palliative care. The very best possible outcome based on any known treatment would have been a prolonged vegetative state. I don't blame the parents due to their understandably desperate emotional state, but this miracle result you seem to think was just across the border is part of fantasyland. It's sad, but that's the fact.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:26AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @05:26AM (#746295)

    This is about Alfie Evans and Charlie Gard. That "miracle result" is a straw man. Nobody was expecting a miracle. People are expecting freedom, parental rights, autonomy, the right to die peacefully at home, the right to go elsewhere for a second opinion, and the right to go to a hospital that is willing to put in more effort.

    So what if no doctor anywhere in the world suggested anything but palliative care? Why can't the baby get care elsewhere, as had been offered? What justifies the legalized kidnapping and imprisonment of a sick baby?

    Charlie Gard had been offered free care in the USA. The NHS determined that he absolutely must die in an NHS hospital.

    Alfie Evans was even given Italian citizenship in a failed attempt to get her out. As with Charlie, the NHS fought to have her die in an NHS hospital.

    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday October 09 2018, @08:07AM

      by sjames (2882) on Tuesday October 09 2018, @08:07AM (#746328) Journal

      For the same reason it would be illegal to sell miracle radium water to someone with a terminal disease.

      The straw man belongs to you:

      I guess it would be embarrassing if the treatment worked after the parents are told that their baby is to die.

      More like it would be utterly earth shatteringly amazing if a baby with practically no remaining brain beyond the brain stem did anything but vegitate and then die.

      As for the Charlie Evans case, the treatment was not free, the parents had to raise the funds. NHS, the hospital, and finally the courts acted to protect the parents and potential donors from predatory vultures who had anything but the child's best interests in mind.

      But before you decide that this is because of socialism, note that there have been cases in the U.S. where a hospital has attempted to wrestle custody away from parents or even attempted to hold a legal adult that wanted to go elsewhere (and was competent to make that decision) where other doctors in good standing disagreed with the diagnosis or even the need for further treatment. In the cases I am aware of, the patients recovered after ultimately getting the other treatment.

      In one case at the Mayo clinic [cnn.com] the parents of an 18 year old actually snuck her out to the curb and ended up leaving with her with tires screeching as nurses and orderlies attempted to pull her from the car. After a multi-day debacle where the family was wanted for "kidnapping" the daughter was taken to a hospital in another state where she was pronounced well enough complete her recovery at home. Ultimately, police decided the kidnapping report was without merit.