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.
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.