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”.
You posted: “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 think it’s just too simple a concept.
Then too, a lot of people don’t get the concept of “emergency.” Anything I want or need is, apparently, an “emergency.”
A lot of the “cabulance” rides involve someone who could easily go by private vehicle. Misuse of EMS endangers everyone in the community, particularly in small towns and rural areas. Some communities have one ambulance or one crew available at any one time. If that ambulance is tied up hauling the person who wants to go to the ER because she’s vomited twice, and someone else has chest pain, an anaphylactic reaction, or another true emergency, that person may have to wait an extra 15 or 20 minutes or more for help.
Hubby worked in a town about 10 miles away from the bigger city where the hospitals were. The town is 98% Hispanic. A lot of illegals. They would use the ambulance for a ‘ride into town’.