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To: TauntedTiger
My recent ambulance ride was necessary but the cost was unbelievable. I went 1 mile at the most and it cost 2k. They wrapped my foot up and gave me one shot of some kind of opioid. Why are emergency services not covered in my taxes?

I've thought about buying a van, throwing a mattress in the back with tarp over it and starting an Uber or Lyft-type service for non-emergency ambulance transportation. I'd charge a fraction of what a real ambulance costs. The only deal is the patient has to be able to enter and exit the vehicle on their own.

I'd make a mint transporting people who need to get to the hospital but don't want to be bankrupted with ambulance costs. And when I wasn't using it, I could rent it out to the "Bang Bus" guys.

19 posted on 06/30/2019 12:17:29 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

Too funny. My insurance paid 1k for each time the ambulance past the Deputy Chief’s home. (Deputy Chief is one of my neighbors.) In fact, if the guy who found me had put me in his car we would have been in ER five to ten minutes sooner. Slowest ride to ER I could have imagined. Literally at the peak of human pain and I’m wondering what route they are taking? The expensive route.


23 posted on 07/01/2019 10:22:33 AM PDT by TauntedTiger (Political correctness analyst/expert/victim)
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