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You could purchase a used car outright for the cost of 1 ambulance ride in the United States.
by rland 7y ago
You could purchase a used car outright for the cost of 1 ambulance ride in the United States.
- nineteen999 7y agoThat is interesting, in Australia it is the same by default, but many people (especially those with families or sick relatives living with them) have Ambulance Cover which is a fairly nominal fee covering your whole family, in which case the cost of an ambulance is vastly reduced.
- _bxg1 7y agoDon't know why you got downvoted; this is absolutely true.
- Sharlin 7y ago"There are problems in our society that we circumvent by things that cause even more problems because we can't coordinate to solve the original problems."
- Brakenshire 7y agoYou could well be right, but the article is about a global trend, car sales in the US by contrast seem to be stable in the last few years, perhaps for these kind of reasons. There are a lot of places in the developed world that have a different context from the US in terms of car culture or healthcare costs. I’m not sure what’s actually creating the 3% drop, though, the evidence in the article for a lifestyle shift seems to be relatively weak outside of the charts they give for the EU.