I think it would be cool if they could bundle all of these subscriptions into a single payment that will fund all essential services. Not sure if anyone’s tried that before.
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
129 points (100.0% liked)
chapotraphouse
13935 readers
750 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
I know, it's quite the taxing dilemma
Oh like Cable TV
Guy Fieri is doing an essential service
I have Ambulance+ so that the paramedic doesn't read ads to me the entire way. You get more bang for your buck if they're treating your injury instead.
Literally me when I have to watch a mid-CPR ad about Joe Rogan’s podcast
Ambulances costing anything anyway is such a marker of a failed society like wtf
I was asked if I wanted to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance after I got T-boned by an F150 and they followed it up with "the ride will cost $2000 if you don't have insurance" even though we were within walking distance of the hospital (like 500 yards).
I walked instead.
Failed country
I exaggerated a bit, the hospital was actually closer to a quarter mile and I didn't actually go because I didn't have insurance so I sure as hell wasn't stepping foot in an emergency room lol
Good news is that I have insurance now, so next time I'm in an accident, the ambulance ride is only $1000 and I only have to pay $8000 out of pocket at the hospital (with a $50,000/year max that they'll cover before it's on me again).
Good thing I'm spending $200/month on that coverage, whatever would I do without the $50 off at urgent care? (Where the base cost of a visit is $200). Kinda wild how you have to take the employer option is it's available or you get fined and if you aren't insured you get fined, and if you have insurance you still have to pay fines.
Fun fact - I looked at travel insurance recently because of a trip I'm planning and it cost 15€/week... with the specification "/without USA and Canada". If you want to go to the US, this temporary insurance costs 25€/week
In Cyberpunk fiction, the privatization of essential medical services serves to show the decline of society
Hey, $60 is a good deal compared to the rates for CrashCart, DocWagon, or Trauma Team!
We live in a worse Shadowrun that doesn't even have an Awakening or AmerInd states taking back much of the US. 
We'd get to fight actual dragons of capitalism 
is this the market responding to people using Uber to get to the hospital
It's a county government subsidizing ambulance costs, but in a stupid pay to opt-in way instead of just doing it. Just wait until the market starts doing shit like this - it'll be ghoulish. 
The American healthcare system is a slot machine.
Just wait until the market starts doing shit like this
is this ironic because that's exactly what insurance does. this is just that 'public option' insurance but only for ambulances lol.
and i'm sure it's brought on by insurance companies making their product so expensive & fighting to not pay anything, if anything i'm curious if these acute conditions will force local governments to do that for more than ambulance costs---but that's hindered by the hospitals generally not being public
What if ambulances, but with a subscription and also QR code swiping that's cloud computed on the blockchain with gamified incentives?
The 30-something disroooopter
This meme is such a banger
You post this one often but I never tire of seeing it, thanks 
When techbros actually innovate something new I'll find something new to dunk them with. 
This is a banger meme, especially with the text around him looking like shit I've seen on my ayahuasca trips. Gotta say though, these types of people will pretty much never do ayahuasca because you can't have cocaine or amphetamines within a few days of the trip unless you want to die.
Hellworld. How many people could be paying for this?
-
For the sake of argument, per the 2020 census, Wake County has ~410K households.
-
At $60/household, that's ~$25M to cover all households.
-
Accepting that cost and depending on how you calculate the population, that's $20~25 per person per year to have free ambulances.
-
The budget for EMS in Wake County is $74M out of a $1800M total county budget.
-
1% of the budget reallocated and all ambulance services are free and it would certainly be less than that at scale. Just fucking reallocate the money.
ah but you see poor people are feckless and if you gave them free ambulances they'd only spend them on drugs and booze
How could I forget about the moral hazard? 
If you didn't charge for ambulance rides the poor would abuse them and use them as taxis, laughing while hard-working law-abiding property-owning citizens would die from heart attacks because all the ambulances are busy driving irresponsible poor persons to liquor stores and drug dens.
you can signup for AmbulenceLX which costs just $120 a year, but comes with an AmbulanceLX Credit Card which gives 4% cash back on all medical co-pays, 2% cash back on gas, and 1% cash back at Evan's Country BBQ.
Death to America
Fucking Wakeism ruining everything 
spoiler
Couldn't the county just directly subsidize ambulance care lol. What a 
solution.
Wake county because people are always dying for fear of medical bankruptcy
In the case of an emergency the last thing you should worry about is paying for the ambulance — WHICH IS WHY THE GOD DAMN AMBULANCE SHOULD BE A FREE PUBLIC SERVICE YOU CRETINOUS VAMPIRES!!!
Countdown until they have EMS insurance that you pay for by the hour, when you think you're most likely to need it 
In less than 5 years, it’ll go from $60/year to $60/month.
The depressing thing is that if this does what it says it does then this is actually a really good deal. If this was being offered locally I'd probably get it tbh
I thought taxes were the subscription?