Cost of amputating a leg? At least $20,000. Cost of an artificial leg? More than $50,000 for the most high-tech models. Cost of an amputee’s rehab? Often tens of thousands of dollars more.

These are just a fraction of the medical expenses victims of the Boston Marathon bombing will face.

The mammoth price tag is probably not what patients are focusing on as they begin the long healing process. But friends and strangers are already setting up fundraisers and online crowd-funding sites, and a huge Boston city fund has already collected more than $23 million in individual and corporate donations.

No one knows yet if those donations — plus health insurance, hospital charity funds and other sources — will be enough to cover the bills. Few will even hazard a guess as to what the total medical bill will be for a tragedy that killed three people and wounded more than 260. At least 15 people lost limbs, and other wounds include head injuries and tissue torn apart by shrapnel.

http://news.yahoo.com/boston-victims-face-huge-bills-200001315.html

I think that their bills should not need donations to be cared for. I think that one of the many jobs of this government is to provide security for the citizens. Even the preamble to the Constitution  touches on the points of domestic tranquility and providing for the common defense. The bombers were immigrants to this country, let in by the federal government with a broken system that is not enforced even though citizens of this country have been screaming for attention to be paid to immigration to this country. Since the government let these people into this country, its the government’s responsibility to the citizens to make sure these people are worthy of entrance and if not, any issues from that fall squarely at the feet of the government.

I’d like to see the President and the first lady take a break from meeting with the bombers and their friends and haul their asses down to the hospital personally meet with each and every one of the injured, and cut the hospital a check.