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just realized how wild it is you can be liable for the cost of an ambulance somebody else calls for you (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Like you're presumably unconscious and at no point ever consent to be liable for the cost, and yet people get billed. It's like if someone just came and did a bunch of work on your house when you were asleep and then sent you a bill.

Like, just wack. It's like if you passed out in Walmart and an employee put a cell phone in your pocket, took your money, then gave you a receipt, and people were like "hmm yes that's legit"

America must be destroyed

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[-] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 44 points 2 months ago

It's free in my country. The same with the medical care you receive: is free.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 57 points 2 months ago

It is wild how countries less powerful and substantially poorer than the US can afford this apparently onerous cost. A mystery that will never be solved

[-] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 2 months ago

Well, my country is not exactly poor. We just have a huge innequality.

Anyway, have you ever tried to listen to the people you guys label as communists in US? Turns out that most of them are not communists at all! They are just fighting for their right to have access to good healthcare, good educational system and good job regulamentations.

Surely there is a communist here and there, but most of the people that is labeled as communist is not communist! They just are tired to live in a place where profit is prioritized over people

[-] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

You're posting on Hexbear. WE'RE the communists.

[-] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 2 months ago

Ah... Ok ok, I see it now

I don't really know each instance, but now I'm alert about hexbear

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Lmao we do like the sentiment though

[-] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Welcome, friend! Poke around a bit, we have a bunch of cool folks around here.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I don't live in the US, but I have reached out to the circuit of communists, socialists, and vague "left leaning whatever" people in my country. We largely have public healthcare here and decent worker and consumer protections, but it's still capitalist and it's still shit.

(Australia btw)

[-] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 2 months ago

Exactly most of the world... Capitalism is destroying the world in the name of the profit.

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago

It's not free in Canada, which is always a fun thing to explain. A little over $100. Unless you're being transported between facilities, then it's free (to the patient).

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It was $5000 for me and the ride was like 2 miles.

I was also unconscious and they maxed out my credit card and just left me in a hallway. Had to walk myself out. Then they billed me another $5000 for "diagnosis and saline"

It was a very rural hospital and the ambulance was privately run.