With fewer and fewer jobs giving health care in the United States, it’s bankrupting to have any medical condition.
Hell, without coverage, my medications would cost me over $700 a month. So if you have anything saved up, it’ll be burned away in one ER visit. It’s why so many avoid taking an ambulance or even bother going in.
Personally, I think I would rather die, than go to a hospital without insurance. Even with insurance, my co-pay is $100.
Our country has become downright dystopian for the older with any health condition. Anymore I feel like the country is ran by the damn Ferengi.
Ambulance companies are all private. When there's a traffic accident, they literally race to see which company gets their 55,000 pound F650 lifted 800 HP diesel behemoth to the site faster. Then they take as long as possible to load up to increase their billables.
That is very incorrect. Each town has a contracts with a company if it isn’t done by the town itself. Mutual aid is done by town agreements. Everyone has their own sandbox and won’t go unless asked. Tow trucks on the other hand are the Wild West. I’ve heard stories of tow driver pulling guns on each other.