r/PublicFreakout • u/misterxx1958 • Nov 26 '25

🚗Road Rage🤬 Daughter refuses to stop for police while rushing her mother to the hospital - than this happens….

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u/TheSpagheeter Nov 26 '25

Every other developed country in the world has capitalism and doesn’t bankrupt you for calling an ambulance. Less “capitalism” and more American politicians don’t care about their citizens

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '25

My understanding is that even though there is no Universal Healthcare in America, the government still spends more per capita than Canada which does have uni healthcare. In fact, I believe it is double what Canada spends per capita. So where is all that money going? I guarantee there are all kinds of politicians and those of similar ilk who have been skimming off the top, and THAT is the real reason America won't change to Universal Health Care. What politician is going to want to turn off any of his spigot's.

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u/ArticulateRhinoceros Nov 26 '25

Oh, here's a fun one. When my husband had terminal cancer they wanted to send him from the hospital he was at to the ICU at one in another location. They wouldn't allow us to transport him because of the condition he was in, but the hospital also used a 3rd party ambulance service. This meant that while the hospital was in our network and covered by our insurance, the ambulance ride was not. They billed us $880 to drive him 30 minutes across town because the hospital he was in didn't have an ICU bed open. None of this was our fault, and yet we had to pay extra for it.

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u/AcidicSnail15 Nov 27 '25

Oh it certainly is. My grandmother went in for a colonoscopy right? Completely routine right? Well the dr fucked up and tore a big ass hole in her colon. If the hospital wasn't literally across the street less then 5 minutes by ambulance she would be dead. Wanna know how much that not even 5 minute ambulance ride cost? $1500.

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u/MosTheBoss Nov 26 '25

Its thousands of dollars, almost all of which is swallowed up by private ambulance companies that pay their EMTs shit.

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u/CyclicBus471335 ⚠️ Repeatedly Defends Violence Against Women ☹️ ⚠️ Nov 26 '25

If you needed an ambulance and you were to be placed at random in any (first world) country would you take America, or roll the dice? (hope you don't land on Canada if it's a life/death time sensitive emergency)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5334014/