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Hospitals wipe out, limit medical bills for Colorado movie theater shooting victims
• DENVER (AP) -- Some of the victims fighting for their lives after being wounded in the movie-theater shooting rampage may face another challenge when they get out of the hospital: enormous medical bills without the benefit of health insurance. • Members of the public, along with Warner Bros., the studio that released the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," have contributed nearly $2 million to help victims, though it's not clear how much of that will cover medical expenses. One family is raising money on its own online. • And three of the five hospitals treating victims said Wednesday they will limit or completely wipe out medical bills. • Some of the victims, however, still face a long recovery ahead and the associated medical costs -- without health insurance. There's no exact count of how many of them don't have insurance but statistics suggest many of them might not be covered. • Nearly one in three Coloradans, or about 1.5 million, either have no health insurance or have coverage that is inadequate, according to a 2011 report by The Colorado Trust, a health care advocacy group. • ___
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