Why Ambulance Rides Are So Expensive In The United States

1. We need to nationalize all ambulance companies.

2. My dads helicopter ride cost $60,000 for 30 minutes in the air!
   While the heroic paramedic who saved his life was paid no more than a Walmart checkout employee… 😰
   What an angel Joshua was!

3. Just throw the bill out. Nothing happens. They can't arrest you for medical bills. I haven't paid for a hospital/ambulance visit in years.

4. US: yes an ambulance is 2000 dollars…. but looks at this F22 RAPTOR!!! LOOK AT IIIIIT!!!

5. Imagine paying money for healthcare

6. Complain about cost yet the day they call for one and one never shows people will have regrets. Paramedics are highly trained and skilled clinicians, not ambulance drivers. These live savers require adequate pay which they don’t get. And to service an area requires funds. They better story should be making paramedics and ambulance services essential. To save people and their families in need horrible story coverage and facts. There’s no real knowledge of ems operations or skills .

7. The best way to keep costs down is to pay the crews crap, oh wait there already doing that

8. Just don't pay 🤷‍♂️
   That's the majority and it drives up costs

9. It is because they can charge whatever they wish. This was a $100 ride. Now $3,200. Shut down this scam, NOW!

10. An Australian paramedic of 26 years here; Frankly, the US EMS industry as a whole is back in the 20th Century. While some cities and counties have world class EMS providers, other counties contend with poorly funded, basic trained BLS ambulance services. In many countries, EMS is owned by state or national governments. Take Australia for example. Each state bar two have a state government owned ambulance service, just as US states have State Police/Highway Patrol. The state of Queensland is 2.5 times larger than Texas and is served by about 3,900 paramedics working out of 290 stations. The annual budget is about $1.1 billion and respond to over a million calls a year in a state of 5.3 million people. Just as Americans don't get a bill from police and fire, Queensland residents don't get billed for ambulance services. So where does that $1.1b come from? The state government funds the service, just as an American state funds it's state police, DMV or any other state agency. Much of the funding is generated from lottery ticket and scratch-it ticket sales, as well as other state taxes. There are so many avenues US states could pursue to generate funding for ambulance services. We don't have EMT level here, as paramedic level is the minimum requirement for working on emergency ambulances. Paramedicine is a respected profession on par with nursing. Seeing American BLS or volunteer ambulances would be like having a basic trained dentist or a volunteer pharmacist. Americans deserve emergency pre-hospital medical care as good as what other nations offer, without the horrendous fees.

11. Sutch an awful system. Pure greed

12. Oh please!

    Davao City Central 911 is actually free of charge, and they're 3 digits short of NYC's budget! If they can pull of off, so can America!!!

13. Wtf even is an Ambulance Industry? 😅

14. The US is more a business than a nation.

15. In India, there are both Government and Private Ambulances (with majority of the Private Ones owned by Private Hospitals).
    The Private Ones are indeed expensive. But the Government Ones are fully free and are readily available (usually).
    And most Indians don't even have to pay Income Tax at all. Less than 3 % of the Population pay Income Taxes in India.
    Yet we have Free Emergency Ambulance Service from the Government.

16. Here its 10-20 dollars 😁😁😁

17. At this point I think USA is just for siphoning money to rich and to buy and make weapons. Using national funds anywhere else is like a big no. Sad that the citizens still think their country is number one🤣🤣🤣

18. I mean I don't why then the US citizens even have a govt if it can't even provide basic amenities.

19. Come on boys, i live in Rio and here the ambulance is free, but like ALL that's "free" (it's not absolut free, because we pay taxes) people use for anything, and This behavior makes the ambulance over requirement, the EMT's lose the meaning of emergency because it's always bullshits and the ambulance delay a lot. So, i prefer saves 1k and in the end of day be safe, insted pay "nothing" and dying waiting.

20. As an Australian and someone that has a Chronic illness it's fair to say that the Ambulance Service we have here is great.
    Even if we have to pay a yearly cover for our Ambulance Cover is only usually $200 or Free if you have a Certain Card like if your a Veteran or have a Disability other than that the state truely cover all bases when it comes to medical care as it is usually taken from our taxes so we don't usually see the payment.
    It's truely does amaze me to see a medical service that is NEEDED be seen as a luxury

21. I got in a car crash. So an ambulance showed up to care for me and see if I was ok. They suggested taking me to the hospital. I refused saying that I’ll be fine. Which as it turns out I was. Now they want me to pay $260 for them just showing up.

22. one word – capitalism

23. My brothers ride could cost him over two thousand dollars because he had a severe head injury. His hospital bill however could be more than one hundred thousand dollars.

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