Posted on 11/10/2013 11:41:27 AM PST by Kip Russell
There was a story some time ago about a local Buffalo woman on welfare who called for an ambulance any time she wanted to go visit her family who lived near the hospital.
once there she would miraculously recover and walk to her families house for a visit
by some conservative (heh heh) math estimating she has called over 6,500 times
at 50% transport and $480 per trip, that’s over 1.5 million dollars JUST for the ambulance trips
She’s obviously not paying. In my town you are billed for services of the EMT crew and the ambulance. So who’s paying for this? We are, suckers!
The 911 operators have more important things to worry about.....like if McDonalds runs out of french fries. /s
Martha Rigsby is just being cautious. She doesn’t want to die like her sister Eleanor, the one the Beatles wrote a song about.
It’s the same all over.
Cities are a bit worse than rural ambulance services ,but the problems are the same.
A possible mitigation for this effect may be for the “patient” to do a few leg isometrics before attempting to stand. The muscle squeezing forces blood from the lower limbs to the heart where it can be routed to a useful location in the body (head).
Buy her a mobile home, put her in it and park it on a hospital parking lot.
Put her in a cabin in the woods. Check up on her next spring.
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