“You just went through a shooting, you just got shot, but that’s where my brain went to.” A shooter killed five people at the club on November 19.James Slaugh, who has insurance, was billed $130,000, he told CNN, and doesn’t know how much of that he will have to pay out of pocket – and just how much Charlene’s multiple surgeries and weekslong treatments will amount to, though she’s also insured.Though there’s no national database tracking the financial aftermath of mass shootings and it’s hard to estimate the total cost that can follow survivors for decades, one study published in the JAMA Network Open in May 2022 found that the average of initial hospital charges for patients injured during a mass shooting between 2012 and 2019 was more than $64,900 per person.But those who survive the carnage are faced with not just hospital bills but the lifelong costs of an altered lifestyle: many are unable to return to work because of disabilities and may need follow-up surgeries, rehabilitation for months or years, mental health treatment and home care.Hudson, who had just moved to Colorado Springs from North Carolina, was shot five times in the back and twice in his arms."