These calls should be handled by ObamaCare.
Posted on 11/11/2013 6:48:09 AM PST by yoe
Many communities across the U.S. have problems getting reimbursed for sending ambulances to pick up patients, but for one community along the U.S.-Mexico border, the delinquent party is the federal government, which the city of Nogales says owes it hundreds of thousands of dollars for picking up immigrants.
The Arizona city billed the federal government for hundreds of ambulance sorties dispatched to calls from federal agents when they find someone injured, but the government has paid less than 20 cents on the dollar — leaving Nogales to bear the burden of more than $250,000 in the past fiscal year alone.
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Sounds like they need to stop responding to these calls.
What federal law says that an ambulance service has to respond to a federal request?
Too bad Gov. Jan Brewer wavers.
Yes, the federal government will threaten to withhold federal funds to Arizona. GOOD! Who needs 'em? Look, if little matchbook-size Hong Kong, with no natural resources and surrounded by big communist China can become a world-wide economic powerhouse through the dynamics of a free-market economy and little-to-no taxes, then so can Arizona. In eight years, Reagan turned California into an economy equivalent to the eighth richest country in the world.
Who needs the dysfunctional bankrupt federal government? In a relatively short time, Arizona could become an economic powerhouse from whom the federal government itself would come begging for money.
Unfortunately, I think it will get a whole lot worse, before it gets better.
Yes, the federal government will threaten to withhold federal funds to Arizona. GOOD! Who needs 'em? Look, if little matchbook-size Hong Kong, with no natural resources and surrounded by big communist China can become a world-wide economic powerhouse through the dynamics of a free-market economy and little-to-no taxes, then so can Arizona. In eight years, Reagan turned California into an economy equivalent to the eighth richest country in the world.
Who needs the dysfunctional bankrupt federal government? In a relatively short time, Arizona could become an economic powerhouse from whom the federal government itself would come begging for money.
Biggest rip-off in the world is what cities charge for an ambulance ride. Usually around $1500 just for taking you a few miles to the hospital. Not surprised that the Feds are not paying that extortion, shouldn’t cost more than a few hundred dollars for that ride. This is one time I agree with the Feds.
These calls should be handled by ObamaCare.
AZ never went for Obastard, so eff ‘em.
Generally the city has licenses for ambulances. The ambulance service charges big bucks to protect from liability too.
Most people have insurance that negotiates the price down. When you need an ambulance, you need one, are willing to pay any money. If the ambulance service is stiffed by the fed, I suggest that an epidemic of flat tires might delay their servicing.
Fed employees should know that they are personally at risk when the government is a deadbeat, and get a different job with an organization that is not a deadbeat.
My small town has excellent ambulance service and it's free to the recipient, through the volunteer F.D.
So, yes, I contribute to their annual pan cake breakfast and I don't even bother to go eat the pan cakes.
On the other side of the coin; I lived in a larger town in 1989 and used their ambulance service and it cost me $1200 for a short trip. $1200 in '89, I can only imagine what it costs now.
An easy way around this problem, is when they call for the ambulance, insist on the name of the individual to be transported. Unless they live in the area, decline the ambulance service because they are “unavailable due to maintenance”.
If they check on its maintenance status, the city needs a rule that after an ambulance has been maintained, it requires approval prior to being dispatched, and there must be a problem with the individual who give approval’s cellphone. So sorry!
Maybe you can get an ambulance from Tucson.
“AZ never went for Obastard, so eff ‘em.”
But they HAVE gone for McLame repeatedly. I guess they have the “battered wife” syndrome,” and now they’ve elected a Flake. Go figure!
“An easy way around this problem, is when they call for the ambulance, insist on the name of the individual to be transported. Unless they live in the area, decline the ambulance service because they are “unavailable due to maintenance”.
Just like the rural areas where they let your home burn if you haven’t paid your annual “fee” to the FD., make the Feds “prepay” for the service and deduct the costs from the prepaid fees.
It is expensive, but the one time I needed them, they were literally RIGHT THERE. God’s work, I am absolutely positive.
So I don’t grudge ‘em a cent. Same thing for the $10K+ Life Flight. I think the ambulance and the chopper saved my daughter’s life.
I here ya. I live here.
Get the callers identity, and bill it to them as a “co-signer”!
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