How cheap does 0care make these rides? I’m guessing these were people who previously got Medicaid and we are now able to know just how goofed up it was with such persons.
End all welfare!
BFL
Illegals are covered at ER
That's why emergency rooms are filled with mexicans and gibs-me-dats. You might live in a community with only 10% mexican population, but if you were to judge by the contents of the overflowing emergency room, you'd think you were living in Mexico City.
Why bother driving to the emergency room for that fever if you can get a ride there for free.
Next...they will complain they are not getting a ride back.
I have worked in a few rural hospital ERs and this is common among Medicaid recipients. I call it “cabulance” rides. Common among the “homeless” in big cities too.
The libs will never figure out that if you want more of something all you have to do is subsidize it or make it “free”.
I used to work at a county hospital for 15 years.
There was a guy that lived within walking distance of the hospital and he was a frequent visitor of the bars downtown. After drinking his fill, he would call for an ambulance and be taken to the hospital where he would be seen by a physician and then discharged (no medical treatment necessary). He would verbally abuse the staff during his entire stay. This went on for a few years. I guess he either died, moved or ended up in prison.
The medical staff gets abused, other patients are put at risk and the tax payers are forced to pay for everything. The thing is, there’s no controlling legal authority to stop the process.
Daughter was hit by a POS a-hole. I am responsible for the ambulance service and ER bill. They hound me as the idiot walks free.
How cheap does 0care make these rides?
$750.00 my homeowner’s insurance paid half.
My gold plated health insurance paid half a million dollars for twenty hospital days and repair and therapy...nothing for the ambulance?
A minor complaint, the EMTs cut my $ spandex cycling outfit off. My daughter said they were very nice guys and washed the blood off the clothes and bike!
Also, they made a very jagged cut! Must have been in a hurry or something?
I do lots of sewing, no way could I make that repair!
Up until recently, going in on a stretcher got you directly into the treatment area. Now, they put you through triage, and if you aren't that bad, you go back to the waiting room.
Hospitals have also stopped feeding people in the ER, cause transients have a tendency to have "heart problems" at about 3:30, so they can get to the ER in time for dinner.
The people crashing the system don't care about anyone else, and they don't think far enough ahead to worry about what will happen when they crash the system.
I work for the big nationwide ems provider in a northeast city and the percentage of BS calls we get is staggering. It definitely got a lot worse when state medicaid was expanded under Obamacare. The claim that this would help alleviate ED overcrowding was disingenuous and reckless.
But but but...it’s affordable care right?
see...life is easy when everything is free...
Just listened to the PeoplesPharmacy.com weekly audio show with a very experienced and respected Dr.
In NYC something happened to her with bleeding from head. When asked if they should call an ambulance, she said no, call a cab.
[ The show had to do with the bad shape medical things have fallen into, how it all started and what caused the current mess. She has a book.
In my area, virtually every ambulance call is to a “bed farm”. We’ve got at least ten of them in our township. Our ambulance service used to be volunteer (and competent). Our community could service our needs by our own volunteer service. Now, with all the entitled, spoiled, hypochondriac destitute on the welfare rolls, it is hopeless. Taxes are soaring, more bed farms are being built, unconscious bedridden (their relatives) are voting in the local elections, raising taxes to pay for more serves that attract more parasites....
We need a good famine wherein people are choosing to feed their children, or feeding the scum. Then some sense will come about. No more turning the cheek. Steal a loaf of bread, and you are dead, your family banished.
We need a “correction” (yes, a shining reference).
When my sister in law lived in our town (thank God she finally moved), the dollar amount of free medical care she got over about 6 years would have financed my and my wife’s retirement.
She would to go to ER, and regardless of why, she always said it was her heart to get her in ahead of those with real needs. It was just so utterly sickening.
Surprising only to a pointy headed academic who has no association with common sense and the real world
“”Few people thought a larger enrollment would lead to a larger utilization of emergency care,“
Few “experts”, maybe. But those of us with half a fricking brain in our hearts knew exactly what would happen.
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