I have quite a bit of medical debt, especially for fukking ambulances - my insurance paid like $800 per, but they bill like 2k for not even 20 minute rides and no life-saving equipment need. I have to call them to basically tell them to accept the insurance rate and stfu bc it's ridiculous I'm not paying that shyt.
Im curious.
Would you accept a tax increase in order to reduce the cost of ambulances?
When I was growing up I remember a lot more ambulances belonging to the county. These days, they all seem to be private companies. I'm sure each of them is trying to get their little profit on each ride. It seems like this is a service that shouldn't be privatized at all, to eliminate the profit incentive.
Just off of some napkin math, it should be about 1.5 m to run and staff a single ambulance 365/24/7, not including liability insurance. At that $2000 per ride rate, they would only need to deal with two emergencies a day to make that amount. And we all know they have a lot more cases than that, so I smell a profit incentive for your high charges