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We have air ambulances in the US. With it being the US and the community being largely rural and poor, it's more economic to die than be flown to help. Most f
by x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
We have air ambulances in the US. With it being the US and the community being largely rural and poor, it's more economic to die than be flown to help. Most families can't swing a $40,000 cost for a life flight, and insurance in some cases won't cover it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-the-flight-to-the-hospital-is-more-costly-than-ever/2019/07/01/9dd66736-99dc-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-the-flig...
- Rebelgecko 6y agoWeird, the article talks about air ambulances being billed as out of network. I thought that after Obamacare passed insurance companies were required to treat all emergency care as if it were in-network. Does that not apply to transportation? Or are helicopters being used in situations that insurance doesn't think are emergencies?
- jschwartzi 6y agoThe point is that nobody knows the answer to this. Good luck fighting the insurance company in court.
- throw0101a 6y agoIn Ontario (and Canada) the majority of healthcare costs are done via taxes through our single-payer systems (health is provincial jurisdiction, hence plural; though there are federal equalization payments).
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThat's fine. Just don't tell them you're poor until after the flight.