Reply #13: Well that god-damned ambulance ride also saves the rest of us certain risks [View All]

[nadinbrzezinski]

from your wife driving you to the hospital... and taking certain risks that she'd not take otherwise.

There are CERTAIN and FEW situations when calling 9.11 is not the best of choices... but those are EXCEPTIONS... not a rule

And if you break your hip and we move you wrong, aka your wife moves you wrong, you can end up PARALYZED, or dead

Now dead, not much increase in social costs, paralyzed on the other hand, is far more expensive than... the 2000 you want to save... most likely with less severe complications, but still the kind that COST the rest of us in social costs.

By the way ALS and a broken hip... can you say 5,000? And what you don't have insurance? By the way with NATIONAL single payer health care you'd not pay a red cent, or a small deductible, but I am sure you knew that

And yes, you do have a right wing POV, quite libertarian... blue dog, to be precise, with a strong whiff of an Ryand