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Cost of an ambulance ride....
That's because your subsidizing the ambulance ride for those who "can't" pay for it.. Lot's of people, let's say stub their toe, can't afford a cab, so call for an ambo and get a free ride. Of course medicare would get away with paying 250 for the same ride that cost you and me 900 out of pocket....
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My Dad, since deceased, told me a story concerning one of his doctors. When he (Dad) received a bill in the mail for something like $600 for a fairly routine office visit, he phoned the doctor's office to complain. The doctor asked if Dad was on Medicare. He was (as well as a fixed Social Security income.) The doctor apologized, explaining to him that he had made a mistake, and that he upped his charges to those patients NOT on Medicare, but still liquid, to make up for the non-payments he received from indigent or otherwise unable-to-pay-higher-fees patients.
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Lemmy see, anon...is that
Lemmy see, anon...is that 'no blood for oil' or is it 'blood for oil'?
Seems to me that the Iraq problem is resolving rather well.
We usually get 'man down' calls several times a day. Amazing how many homeless out there are absolutely shitfaced by noon. I mean ossified. Since the Pine St Inn etc won't take them in that condition, they wind up in the E ward of a local hospital.
On your dime.
"resolving rather well"?
i'd hate to see what would classify to you as "poorly planned, instigator of a decade of violence, and producer hundred thousand corpses"
so iraqi deaths are back down to a 2005 level, about 30 a day, and US deaths have come down to about 1 per day. That isn't "resolving well" in my book, especially when about a quarter of our debt from this war (the first in US history unaccompanied by a tax increase) is held by China. No, that is not a rosey picture to me at all.
Can't pay $250?
Do these people own cars/homes/expensive electronics? Liquidate them.
A $900.00 bill for short ambulance ride?!?
That's completely out of line!!
you think that's bad...
I just got a bill for $1575...