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Wait, are you saying that 30k/mo gross is enough to run an ambulance service?

• zepolen 7y ago
  Easily. 2 x EMTs @ $2,000 = $4,000 / month 1 x $100,000 amublance amortized over 3 years = $3,000 / month 150 gallons gas (150 miles per day @ 30mpg) x $2.50 = $375 / month Callcenter = $500 / month Overheads = $1000 / month Supplies = $1000 / month ----- Total cost = $10,000 / month
  • mlguy456 7y ago
    Perhaps you know better, but my uneducated guess would be that just an ambulance vehicle costs 15k/month, then every medic costs 10k/month at least and there will be expensive weird things like commercial insurance that costs another 5k/month. 100k/month might make you break even in the long run.
  • ceejayoz 7y ago
    Go to a busy ER and you'll discover that ambulance crews may have to sit around for 2-3 hours at times until they can fully hand off the patient. The omission of things like liability insurance is curious, as well.
    • MagnumOpus 7y ago
      From what I hear in the UK, ambo crews don’t wait around, definitely not 2-3 hours. (And they are all employed by the state [NHS], the state self-insures for liability, just like it self-insures for the ambulance’s car insurance.)