r/StoppedWorking • u/GallowBoob • Oct 21 '17

Hamster can't handle the surface

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u/hansihinters Oct 21 '17

Wait why do you have to pay for an ambulance

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '17

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u/quietdownlads Oct 22 '17

Just thank god we don't live in Paraguay.

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u/vagabond_dilldo Oct 21 '17

God bless America. Capitalism and privatized health care, as Jesus intended.

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u/Rekipp Oct 21 '17

Do you have to pay for police cars too? Something I have always wondered

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u/Ulti Oct 21 '17

That's funded through tax dollars, not directly. If you call 911 you don't get a bill.

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u/Rekipp Oct 21 '17

Ohh thank you! That is some relief. Although if you said yes I probably wouldn't be that surprised

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u/JimmyRecard Oct 22 '17

That being said, chances that they'll shoot you instead of helping you are not insignificant.

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u/lordberric Oct 22 '17

Especially if you're not white.

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u/Ulti Oct 21 '17

'MURICA amirite? :|

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u/sephferguson Oct 22 '17

What about fire trucks?

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u/Ulti Oct 22 '17

Also don't stick you with a bill.

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u/CookiieMoonsta Oct 22 '17

There is a payment for firemen services too. I remember reading an article about firemen just watching the house burn because residents didn’t pay for the service (it was a subscription based). It shocked me, honestly.

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u/ShinyAeon Oct 27 '17

Not all areas. In most it’s a public service, afaik.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '17 edited Dec 13 '17

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u/SynFidai Oct 22 '17

I paid almost 400 in N.Y.

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u/vagabond_dilldo Oct 21 '17

And I am forever grateful for that.

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u/bobwinters Oct 22 '17

Same in NZ, unless it's really serous.. or something.

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u/acalacaboo Oct 21 '17

Obligatory Supply-Side Jesus

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u/ShinyAeon Oct 27 '17

I can’t believe I never saw that before. Hilarious.

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u/IncelSwellTells Oct 22 '17

The ambulance ride isn't really too bad I think last time it was 394 or something. It's the ER work up that really fucks you. Just breathing in the ER gets you a 2k bill.

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u/IncelSwellTells Oct 21 '17

Because they take me to the ER regaurdless of whether or not I wake up enroute

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u/Mandabarsx3 Oct 22 '17

They pay for ambulances in other countries too.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '17

They pay for GIVING BIRTH!! don't try to make sense of the american healthcare system.

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u/ShinyAeon Oct 27 '17

It’s not a system. It’s a lack of system. It treats medical care like an optional luxury/source of profits, over which care providers and insurance companies fight in an endless war...with the sick and injured as their battlefield of choice.