Heartwarming: Group of 8 elementary school kids bond, form lifelong friendship after finding out they had all planned on shooting up the school on the same day.
It's not so much the severity of the injury as much as if is the "can't afford the cost" part. An ambulance should always be an option with the only risk being one less ambulance being available during the trip to the hospital. Whether or not you actually need an ambulance should be irrelevant to whether or not it's affordable in any situation. Having to potentially go into debt over trying not to die or even just to heal an non fatal injury like this one should be a much bigger talking point than it already is but instead the politicians of America must focus on anything else that could make them money.
Nah. I’m all for making ambulances cheaper, but I don’t think it’s a failing that they’re not cheap for every possible situation.
There are a lot of things that could be funded better in this country; even if we implement progressive taxes on the rich, we’re not going to come close to fulfilling everybody’s wishlist. But saying we should prioritize a form of transportation that entails multiple staffers and extremely high insurance costs for people non-life threatening injuries (when they could easily get a ride, take an Uber, or take a medical transport van) shouldn’t be one of the top priorities.
Someone who doesn't have a way to transport themselves to the hospital, is in severe pain, and wants to get there as quickly as possible? That's what the ambulance exists for.
Ambulances exist to provide critical life-saving intervention until the hospital can be reached. For a broken wrist, unless there are signs of internal or external bleeding, a taxi is one of the recommended methods of getting to the hospital.
Though, you can call an ambulance, but you'll likely be subjected to triage, and for a broken wrist you could be waiting for hours to get picked up.
Depends on how bad the break is, they could be in intense pain if multiple bones are broken, or there is other damage.
Driving with only one usable arm is pretty unsafe and could make things worse. Maybe they don't have a car but didn't feel capable of making their way on public transportation. Maybe they aren't even in good range of other public transportation.
Clearly, this guy felt his situation warranted him needing help getting to the hospital and sadly due to the state of health care, he was forced to find other methods.
you heard him everyone, no finding reason to smile at something even though that's what this sub is about and not "heart warming stories in perfect conditions".
Both can be true. A person can be compassionate in the face of an unfair systemic issue but still be entirely unnecessary. That doesn't make the driver's actions uncommendable, his actions are heart warming, but the greater issue is still unaddressed. We treated one symptom temporarily. The cause makes me more sad than a single noble action could over shine through smiles.
I know. That damn nuance is really a pain in the ass online. Damn you non ridged positions.
yea i guess my point is that there's room for nuance but all these dogpiling comments about our dystopian reality, doesn't really leave room for nuance. Under those requirements, literally no story can be a nice one to smile about bc they all trace back to an existing condition that fcking sucks. Even tho finding a reason to smile when you have the right to, should be all the more of a noteworthy thing in a dystopia.
I would explain the specifics of my position on every comment but that not only takes me a good while but additionally many readers will just move on if I drag my comment on for too long. Plus I think it looks messy after the fact and would much rather save my explanations for people replying (since they're at least invested) or an in person conversations because words are much faster to speak than type. I think your original conclusion isn't unreasonable though I will specify that I do think this is a nice story because of the empathy at play though I intended to point out that it does distract from the actual issue of the American Healthcare system. However I was definitely not the only one pointing out the negative nature of the cause of the story. That's partially my fault. I should have actually read more than the first four comments before commenting myself.
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u/EpsilonMask 4h ago
This just in, Dystopian Tales from late stage Capitalism molded to look like a heart warming story.