A Massachusetts woman begs people not to call an ambulance
for fear of high hospital costs
KED - What the article
does not mention is that in part, one of the drivers for the precipitous
increase in the cost of a ride to the emergency room is “ambulance abuse.”
Folks who call an ambulance for unnecessary reasons. These are the folks who
have a headache, a running nose or stub their toe and they are calling an
ambulance. At the station we call them the “frequent fliers.” More often than
not – “frequent fliers” do not pay their ambulance bills – read: the station
goes uncompensated for the call; and these folks call a lot. So, who pays for
ambulance abuse – we do. All of us do.
Woman begging people not to call ambulance gains national
attention
BY ARIS FOLLEY - 07/03/18 03:20 PM EDT
A Massachusetts woman is drawing attention for begging
people not to call an ambulance for fear of high hospital costs after she was
injured in a subway accident.
Video of the woman from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation
Authority Police (MBTA) Police Department went viral over the weekend. It shows
her in apparent agony after her leg was caught in a gap between a train and the
platform on Friday.
The 45-year-old woman, whose name has not been released,
asked fellow passengers who came to her aid to not call the ambulance. “Do you
know how much an ambulance costs?” the injured woman asked one passenger.
The story first picked up traction on Twitter when a Boston
Globe reporter posted about the incident after witnessing the aftermath of the
accident on Friday.
Read more here: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/395409-story-of-injured-woman-begging-people-not-to-call-ambulance-due-to-costs-gains
Woman begging people not to call ambulance gains national
attention
BY ARIS FOLLEY - 07/03/18 03:20 PM EDT Read more here: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/395409-story-of-injured-woman-begging-people-not-to-call-ambulance-due-to-costs-gains
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