Actually, Medicaid will pay something as opposed to what ER’s normally get from the deadbeat class. I’ve worked in an ER. They delay treatment for non-ER cases unless they arrive in an ambulance.
BTW ambulance rides are free for Medicaid patients.
Ambulance rides are not free. Somebody is paying about $1G. If its Medicaid, then its the taxpayer.
EMS staffers are not offering free service They get paid. The idea that government funded care is free is what got us into this mess. I had to pay $100 out of pocket yesterday for eczema medication
Why is that? Medical equipment, services, medication and testing costs have soared over the last 40 years as people have pretended government money grows on trees
When people figure out they’ll get treated past triage by rising in an ambulance the way the New Yorkers did about 40 years ago, they’ll take that route, much like twice as many signed up for Medicaid than they did obamacare
But none of it is free. And the system will crash or some foreign entity will call our bluff on the value of out tree money and crash it first