In Ontario, Canada, the user fee for an ambulance ride is $45 (and that's controversial). Upon arrival at ER, we show our health card. Then we never have to think about money again at hospital unless admitted and want private room instead of ward. #singlepayer #HealthCareForAll
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* $45 if they decide your ambulance ride was medically valid, otherwise it's $240. (Having had an anaphylactic reaction misdiagnosed as a panic attack at an Ontario ER, this is not a trivial caveat). Prescriptions that we may receive at the ER are also not free.
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More broadly and significantly, single-payer healthcare is not equivalent to universal healthcare, and absolutely does not equate to
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Thank you, Alex, and my apologies. You're absolutely right.
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The article speculates that some are taking
@Uber to the hospital to avoid ambulance fees. Leon Moskatel and my paper finds UberX market entry lowers per capita ambulance volume by 7%. https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/kanwpaper/201708.htm … - 1 more reply
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The unfortunate reality is that almost every EMS agency has to rely on billing to stay in business. Unlike police or fire local governments don’t fund EMS and agencies are forced to rely on billing to pay for payroll, equipment, fuel and the vehicles
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In my opinion, Capitalism is not good for healthcare. Public consistently bad judges of care and profit frequently prevents people from behaving ethically.
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I think that if ambulance transport became free for true medical emergencies (ie. MI’s, strokes, anaphylactic emergency’s, ect) and people who call for med refill, common colds and other things that are not diagnosed as emergent (by physicians at the hospitals) should pay in full
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EMS = Prehospital Care. EMS & Inter-facility transfers require much more than “ambulance ride.” Not trying to justify $$$ of trained EM care providers available 24/7. However topic is way more complex than adding $ sign & calling it an “ambulance ride.”
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My wife medical helicopter ride of 45 miles after an aneurysm rupture was 56K. Insurance covered everything even the copay. Insane.
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