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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: 2) by dry on Tuesday October 09 2018, @04:26AM
You still get laws with single payer as the government doesn't like spending so much money on preventable problems. OTOH, you also get things like free vaccinations, free stop smoking help and drugs, government buildings with no junk food (unless you bring your own) and lots of propaganda designed to make you act safer, things like ads encouraging not using cell phones when driving or encouraging exercise.