as gunshot victims are cared for on behalf of the taxpayer thus can count themself lucky. The bill does still come in below Obama's suggestions regarding costs.
http://www.rit.edu/cla/cpsi/WorkingPapers/2008/CostOfGunRelatedInjury.pdf
Also the fact that for example in 2000 they were used for about 18000 suicide cases in the US about more than half of all cases showing their popularity in public life or better the end of it. Palin also argued that it would not be justified to raise a bullet tax to pay for that element of healthcare as gun crime is selectively applied amongst the self paying part of the poplualtion thus they were unlikely to pay for that anyhow.