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NNN0LHI

(67,190 posts) Wed Jul 25, 2012, 10:03 PM Jul 2012

3 hospitals to wipe out medical bills for some Colo. shooting victims

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/13998724-418/3-hospitals-to-wipe-out-medical-bills-for-some-colo-shooting-victims.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS July 25, 2012 6:12PM

DENVER (AP) — Three hospitals taking care of people wounded in the Colorado theater shooting say they will limit or completely wipe out medical bills for the victims.

Some victims, many of them young, are uninsured and face mounting hospital bills.

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3 hospitals to wipe out medical bills for some Colo. shooting victims (Original Post) NNN0LHI Jul 2012 OP

Holmes' family should be on the hook for the rest of the bill /nt dickthegrouch Jul 2012 #1

Why? Fumesucker Jul 2012 #3

Link to where they were part of the shooting? obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #4

Punish his family for crimes he committed? n/t SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2012 #5

Failure in parenting dickthegrouch Jul 2012 #7

Tribal guilt is a horrible, reactionary, obscurantist, tyrannical, evil, psychopathic idea. 2ndAmForComputers Jul 2012 #8

This shouldn't be a story at all. Brickbat Jul 2012 #2

I was wondering about this BumRushDaShow Jul 2012 #6

Socialists! johnnie Jul 2012 #9

Handouts !!!!! steve2470 Jul 2012 #10

dickthegrouch

(3,174 posts)

1. Holmes' family should be on the hook for the rest of the bill /nt

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 10:25 PM

Jul 2012

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

3. Why?

Reply to dickthegrouch (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 10:27 PM

Jul 2012

He is an adult, his parents are not responsible for what he did, by all accounts they are fairly normal people.

obamanut2012

(26,076 posts)

4. Link to where they were part of the shooting?

Reply to dickthegrouch (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 10:38 PM

Jul 2012

I haven't read that they were.

SickOfTheOnePct

(7,290 posts)

5. Punish his family for crimes he committed? n/t

Reply to dickthegrouch (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 10:39 PM

Jul 2012

dickthegrouch

(3,174 posts)

7. Failure in parenting

Reply to dickthegrouch (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 26, 2012, 11:10 AM

Jul 2012

Somehow, somewhere along the line they gave their son the idea that it was OK to kill. Or, at the very least, didn't disabuse him of that notion.

2ndAmForComputers

(3,527 posts)

8. Tribal guilt is a horrible, reactionary, obscurantist, tyrannical, evil, psychopathic idea.

Reply to dickthegrouch (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 26, 2012, 11:12 AM

Jul 2012

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

2. This shouldn't be a story at all.

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 10:27 PM

Jul 2012

BumRushDaShow

(129,027 posts)

6. I was wondering about this

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 10:42 PM

Jul 2012

how many may not have had insurance and on average, a cost of tens of thousands a week (or for those in critical condition, way more). Good for those hospitals!!!