Gun
research April 10, 2018 -- Gun violence is a public health issue. It should be studied. Perhaps research can suggest solutions. The Dickey Amendment prevents the federal government from doing this... scoring a bullseye for the gun lobby. Why suppress research? The reason is obvious: the gun industry knows it would reveal what they don't want revealed. But today Kaiser has stepped in, with an ambitious plan to research gun violence (Washington Post). Thousands of Kaiser patients must be treated each year for gunshot wounds. "We should be thinking about this problem and studying interventions for it in the same way we study heart disease or diabetes or any other leading cause of death." Go Kaiser! |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798