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Suburban Chicago. Elk Grove Village, IL to be precise. $700 bill for response and transport to the hospital. I was a local taxpayer at the time.
The days of free ambulance service in the Chicago area are over
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Need an ambulance? Better brace yourself for the pain of paying a steep price for that ride to the hospital.
Free ambulance rides, once a common practice among Chicago-area municipalities, have become increasingly rare for the sick or injured, according to a Better Government Association analysis of rates and billing procedures of about 130 fire departments in Cook County.
That's what someone not liberal does. Takes responsibility and solves the problem. The hospital would have been paid back, they chose to let the debt go.
You do realize that what you just suggested is Socialism? They may have "wrote it off" but someone paid it.
The days of free ambulance service in the Chicago area are over
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Need an ambulance? Better brace yourself for the pain of paying a steep price for that ride to the hospital.
Free ambulance rides, once a common practice among Chicago-area municipalities, have become increasingly rare for the sick or injured, according to a Better Government Association analysis of rates and billing procedures of about 130 fire departments in Cook County.
I realize it costs a lot of money for these things, but the last thing on my mind if I'm badly injured is not wanting an EMT to assess my injuries and transport me to the hospital.
Maybe the woman in the OP did not know this. I know I didn't until just now.
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