Aurora Shooting Victim faces $2 Million Medical Bill
By Steve Kinsman, 24th Jul 2012 | Follow this author
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Caleb Medley, severely injured in the Aurora, Colorado massacre, may face up to two million dollars in medical expenses.
No medical insurance
In Canada there is universal health care, and in Britain, France, Scandinavia, Germany and a host of other nations as well. Here in America, however, health care reform doesn't kick in until 2014, and even then it will not be anything comparable to what it is overseas.
Too bad for Caleb Medley, who was shot in the eye in the Aurora theater and is now in an induced coma, in critical but stable condition. Sources say that medical expenses for Caleb could reach as much as two million dollars.
Caleb's wife Katie is in the same hospital, awaiting the birth of their first baby any minute.
Click on this link, calebmedley.com, if you would like to read about Caleb's life and to donate to a fund to help with his medical expenses.
Preview photo from calebmedley.com
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24th Jul 2012 (#)
I am not against doctors earning a good wage but let us be honest the huge wages people in the medical industry make, as well as the wages of those who sell insurance, all inflate the cost of health care. Canada's system is great but when I lived in the USA we were all told how bad it was to prevent us from demanding it.
It is time Americans demanded a Canadian style of health care.
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24th Jul 2012 (#)
Yes, Mark, we need a Canadian style system here.
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24th Jul 2012 (#)
I think even Cuba has free health care for its people.
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24th Jul 2012 (#)
Cuba does.
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24th Jul 2012 (#)
Medical care in this country is all about the benjamins. As for what happened in Aurora...don't get me started on that. That massacre would have been avoided if there had been one duly licensed to carry citizen in the audience who had his weapon on him. All the body armor that ass hole was wearing wouldn't have saved him from a round between the eyes.
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24th Jul 2012 (#)
And maybe if assault rifles were illegal the carnage would have been less. Thanks for commenting Jerry.
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24th Jul 2012 (#)
Steve, the AR-15 that he had, was a semiautomatic rifle the same as any hunting rifle you buy in any sporting good store. An assault rifle is a fully automatic weapon and not available to be purchased legally. The Brady Bunch like to call any rifle that has a fully automatic counterpart available only to the military and police an assault rifle when it isn't any such thing.
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24th Jul 2012 (#)
I bow to your expertise my friend. Thank you.
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24th Jul 2012 (#)
I do not think the victims will have any issues paying their expenses. Warner Bros. has already pledged financial support and I feel sorry for the theater's insurance company. Any liability law suit for damages, pain and suffering would be quickly settled. That door should have had an alarm on it, to prevent him from doing what he obviously did. To discuss healthcare in this instance would be to politicize it and the victims deserve better than that out of respect.
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24th Jul 2012 (#)
Well, let me just say I'm glad there is someone out there who feels sorry for the poor, beleaguered insurance companies. They deserve at least as much concern from us as the victims of the shootings.
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25th Jul 2012 (#)
It could have been anybody, but Caleb, his family and other victims of this mindless act are suffering for no fault of theirs. There are just no words to comfort them, Steve - siva
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25th Jul 2012 (#)
Thank you Siva, for the breadth and reach of your compassion.
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25th Jul 2012 (#)
The whole thing is just sad. Thank you for sharing.:)
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25th Jul 2012 (#)
Thank you Denise.
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27th Jul 2012 (#)
I am glad they have a site to raise money trying to help pay for his medical expenses. Thank you for sharing this Steve.
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27th Jul 2012 (#)
And thank you Clarence.
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30th Jul 2012 (#)
The whole system is deplorable. I would like to throw in an aside gained from personal experience, and in response to Robb 714. As a visitor to the jail in Houston, I was denied entry as I have a metal implant in my hip. However, I am able to walk onto a plane from Houston Intercontinental Airport without any problem. Therefore, we do not even have adequate alarm systems in airports. A weapon could be implanted in a terrorist's body and detonated from the ground. Yes, I did contact the FBI. No response.
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