Is banning hand guns the answer to lowering insurance premiums in the US?

Question by FizzyBubbler Lives Forever!: Is banning hand guns the answer to lowering insurance premiums in the US?
Despite its status as an advanced industrial nation, the United States has some unusual characteristics. For example, while its health care system is the most expensive in the world, its citizens are neither healthier nor do they live longer than citizens in other countries. In addition, while the U.S. is considered among the safest countries, deaths from gunshot wounds are staggeringly high. In 2000, the U.S. recorded close to 11,000 firearm homicides and more than 16,000 firearm suicides. The European Union — an area with a population approximately 25% higher than that of the U.S. — reported fewer than 1,300 firearm homicides for the same year. In Japan, the number was 22.

For every firearm death, there are nearly three gun injuries requiring emergency medical treatment.

By conservative estimates, gunshot injuries cost about $ 4 billion a year in medical expenses.

Parting with your gun could pull the US out of debt and increase the average lifespan 103 days (according to Jean Lemaire professor of insurance / actuaries at Wharton school of business).

Or would you rather keep your gun even so?

Sources:
Annest JL, Mercy JA, et al. “National Estimates of Nonfatal Firearm-Related Injuries: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg.” JAMA 273:22 (1995):1749-1754.

Kizer, KW, Vassar, MJ, et al. “Hospitalization Charges, Costs, and Income for Firearm-Related Injuries at a University Trauma Center.” JAMA 273:22 (1995):1768-1773.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1214

Best answer:

Answer by misty19492000
No, and before you say we have we have a shorter life expectancy because of poor quality medical care, you need to look at all the factors. We have the highest cancer survival rate because we do have the best medicine can offer.

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