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Orson Welles also famously used an ambulance to get around to various radio shoes in NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AOrson_Welles https://en.wikipedia
by rkowalick 9y ago
Orson Welles also famously used an ambulance to get around to various radio shoes in NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AOrson_Welles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AOrson_Welles
Due to his busy radio schedule,
he was hard pressed to find ways
to get from job to job in busy New
York City traffic. In an interview
conducted in his later years,
Welles tells how he "discovered
that there was no law in New York
that you had to be sick to travel
in an ambulance." Therefore, he
took to hiring ambulances to take
him, sirens blazing, through the
crowded streets to get to various
buildings.
- brightball 9y agoThere's a lady in South Carolina who's on medicaid that did that to the tune of costing the medicaid office about $400,000. I'll have to see if I can find the article. EDIT: Found it http://www.live5news.com/story/22075845/live-5-news-investigates-woman-accused-of-using-ambulance-for-taxi-service http://www.live5news.com/story/22075845/live-5-news-investig...
- dogruck 9y agoShameful to see the officials congratulate themselves on busting the lady after she copped a free ambulance ride 100 times. Seems like she was merely hacking a horribly inefficient system.
- brightball 9y agoCan't argue that. Can you imagine the liability from the ambulance staff if they just didn't pick her up though?
- dogruck 9y agoYup, age old "that's not my job" strikes again.
- malcolmgreaves 9y agoWrong: the shame is on the woman who knowingly abused the system and took money away from sick people. Just because you can hack a system doesn't mean that you should.
- dogruck 9y agoWhat portion of the blame does the poor woman bear? What is the just punishment? What about people who visit emergency rooms, for non-medical emergencies?
- cbhl 9y agoOkay, but why does an ambulance ride in America cost $4,000 a pop? An Uber travelling the same distance would cost $4, maybe $40. This is health care costs being out of control right there.
- icantdrive55 9y agoI liked him until today. Entitlement is an ugly trait. Yes--I'm projecting. I just see to much of it these days.