[Graybeard58]

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.

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.

[Little Ray]

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.