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$1,400 is actually super cheap for an ambulance ride. I think they’re typically closer to $14,000
I checked and 2 years ago the average cost was indeed about $1400:
Probably more now, although I doubt 10× as much…
Usually more 3-5,000 for the ride. More medicine extra but most ambulance rides dont need extra.
Also somehow the paramedics doing the care are getting like minimum wage…its such a scam.
Some places in the US the EMTs are volunteer-only and don’t get paid anything…
I just realized that we don’t pay volunteer EMTs or Firefighters. And of course, I’m sure fulltime police officers outnumber the fulltime staffing of both firefighters and EMTs.
How the fuck have we survived this long?
What the actual fuck. These threads are so unbelievable to me.
What’s next, the EMT pays out of pocket for the privilege to work in an ambulance? Ridiculous.
I mean. Kinda. Usually they have to pay for their own training/EMT school before they even get the job.
Someone once said an ambulance isn’t your personal taxi to the hospital, like my brother in fuck what do you think it is then?
Exactly, its your personal free ride. Not like a taxi at all.
Yep. It’s free, it’s faster, and it has in-vehicle catering!
At the risk of getting myself a rain of downvotes here:
An ambulance is an expensive and somewhat rare mini-ER on wheels that’s designed to help a small team of expensive and somewhat rare specialists stabilize a dangerous condition on a patient until it reaches a hospital. Since it is important to keep those somewhat rare vehicles and teams in reserve for when they are suddenly urgently needed, you really shouldn’t use one as a taxi to the hospital if whatever your condition is doesn’t call for that.
(Asking enormous sums of money of the patient for the privilege is IMHO still wrong. The decision to use an ambulance or not should not be based on whether you can can easily part with a couple thousand dollars.)
I don’t believe there is a problem of people needlessly calling ambulances.
If that was the case, the appropriate response would not be to charge everyone bank breaking fees for it.
I’d be more ok with this if the expensive specialists on board were actually making bank instead of really low wages.
So triage the issue remotely and send the appropriate response.
Stubbed toe? Reimburse a ride share.
Fractured arm? EMT in a lower cost van.
Urgent trauma? Full rig and EMT crew.
In more civilized countries, they would charge you for abuse if you call an ambulance when you don’t need it. But even the fine is less than this number.
