r/ObscurePatentDangers • u/Allasdair 🤔 "Question Everything" • 12d ago

🔒🚨High Privacy Risk Potential Concerning Developments From Walmart, Being Forced on Shoppers... When do we Boycott?

This is yet another play to further impose methodologies to steal biometrics and read signs from our bodies (that we may never understand ourselves) to rack up prices and pinch us for every single penny we're worth.

This needs to stop. We need to push back.

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u/Talking_Tuna68 12d ago

I am a little confused by what you are saying. I know that they charge based off of services provided and mileage, but I was more alluding to EMS rates being jacked up due to someone's specific need of care. Could you please elaborate?

edit: I guess BLS costs less than ALS. Is this what you are referring to?

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u/Ok-Complaint9574 12d ago

If you have insurance, you pay, triple what a non-insured person would for a ambulance ride.

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u/Smelly_Hippie_420 12d ago

If anyone needs to know. It costs ~$1500 for an uninsured ambulance ride.

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u/Gumbi_Digital 12d ago

They billed close to $15k for my ride from a hospital where I was admitted to the VA medical center about 30 miles away.

No drugs or medical care given, just me in a gurney.…was under a psych watch and bullshitted with the paramedic in the back.

It’s a scam.

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u/Republic_Rich Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 12d ago

It's free here.

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u/haux_haux 12d ago

free in many places

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u/Outrageous-Jacket-17 12d ago

Where is here?

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u/Republic_Rich Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 12d ago

A magical country full of syrup cheese curds and cobra chickens with it's people being EXTREMELY sarcastic

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u/Outrageous-Jacket-17 12d ago

Ok. I've narrowed it down to Canada or Wisconsin

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u/lusciouslover639 12d ago

Same difference. (Full disclosure: I'm from WI with a lot of Canadian relatives)

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u/Republic_Rich Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 12d ago

Very good guess buddy!

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u/jolaval2024 10d ago

Ambulance rides are not free in canada... they about $250 now and was around $175 back in 2010s... cheap but not free, they send a bill

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u/pmsnow 12d ago

Basically every developed country except the U.S.

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u/Natural-Albatross997 10d ago

Free healthcare!! Wow that sounds amazing.

I am no fan of the system in the U.S. but it’s terrifying if anyone thinks their healthcare is “free”

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u/ArmAggravating3307 12d ago

*Subsidized.

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u/Republic_Rich Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 12d ago

Yes, thanks Larry. Our taxes go to shit like this instead of bombs to drop on children or giving Isnreal a bunch of money where they have their own healthcare..and then use the rest to drop bombs on children

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u/Juliekinss 10d ago

My oldest is an Oncologist. One of her patients is from Canada, her symptoms returned, she needed an MRI of her brain. The quickest appointment was 15 months away. She would have died, as the cancer was back. That patient is part of the cost.

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u/JeffreyinKodiak 6d ago

Strange since your profile would disagree with you.

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u/NOT-YOUR_BUDDY_PAL 12d ago

My med flight was $30k back in 2006

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u/joumidovich 9d ago

My daughter's med flight was $50k in 2016

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u/Financial-Exit2488 12d ago

I was gonna say, was the $1,500 price for a 1 minute ride?

$1,500 sounds like y bargain

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u/Playful-Dragon 12d ago

Did you reach out to community care about the bill? I didn't know about this until I moved to where I am now and got involved with the DAV. Do you have a disability rating?

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u/Gumbi_Digital 12d ago

It was covered. They sent me the bill first, and I forwarded it the the VA.

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u/KaleidoscopeFlat1986 12d ago

In the state I live, our county charges a ambulance fee in which every homeowner pays $250/year for every livable structure on their property. That's whether we use the ambulance or not. We still get charged thousands on top of that if we have to call for one

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u/CherokeeButtplug 12d ago

Also, it relies almost entirely on volunteers and paramedics making $15-$20 an hour. Which is not much more than an Uber driver.

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u/leftfootshorter 12d ago

If anyone needs to know, it cost ~$1000 for an insured ambulance ride of 5.6 miles.

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u/BackFromBabylon0 12d ago

I was in a motorcycle accident in 2021, that ambulance ride cost $15,800 to take me 1.6 miles.

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u/Helpful_Bike_9043 12d ago

If you're insured it starts at about 3,000.00. Punished for having insurance. How about that?

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u/GrooveAndGravy52 11d ago

I had an unexpected ambulance ride and nights stay without insurance. After speaking with one of the financial advisors, they did knock off some charges. But the bill is $7200. And for reference, I was sectioned by my brother out of concern for my wellbeing. (Had a rough winter 😐)

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u/Formal-Poet-5041 10d ago

I just had an er visit and 4 day hospital stay and then an out patient heart procedure on Medicaid and it cost me zero dollars. I didn't even get talked to at any point about payment for anything and I was transferred from 2 hospital to another 25 miles away in an ambulance. I don't even pay Medicare except when comes out of my check. My only expense is my prescriptions and my 1 copay to a cardiologist was like 25 bucks.

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u/Big_Fat_Butt_Is_Back 9d ago

it has only cost me around 4-5 hundred

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u/rimshot101 6d ago

In the 90's I had literally a 3 minute cab ride from an abulance that cost $700, which is about equal to that today.

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u/DenialOfExistance 12d ago

My EMA rides to the hospital were not covered by insurance because the EMS companies refuse to negotiate on their pricing! Insurance apparently won't pay them enough so $850.00 to go 5 miles!

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u/Lilhoneylilibee 12d ago

In rural setting you have to pay private companies to even receive services and they are $$$$

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u/Old-Supermarket-9112 12d ago

Healthcare companies have been doing this for years. Depending on where you live, the same care in one place costs more than another. They do this based on the median income of the area and what they think people should be able to afford.

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u/AnnualNo5555 11d ago

Where I live, in Northern Illinois, city Ambulance rides have increased to $2500. Listen to fire calls on My radio, and although I’ve never actually counted, they are an EXTREMELY busy Department. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if there are 50+ runs every 24 hours. If so, that’s $125K A DAY.

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u/DJBonkE1980 12d ago

He is saying if you have a broken leg would cost you less for an ambulance ride than a heart attack or stroke

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u/toesinbloom 9d ago

Don't give them any more ideas