Good grief...my sister and her husband were both paramedics before they got good paying jobs...paramedics are waaay underpaid at 12 to 14 dollars an hour last I heard...she would always fuss about certain groups of people i won't name that used ambulances as a taxi service to take their kids, self, baby momma, baby daddy, etc to the ER...because they had a head cold, a fever, a tooth ache, a stubbed toe...a doctor's appointment near the hospital...etc etc...these people should be put in a database and only get an ambulance ride if there are life threatening circumstances, as determined by the paramedics...not them. Huge, HUGE drain on tax dollars and manpower to taxi these leeches around. Meanwhile, millions of hard working families like mine have no health insurance because it costs so much...due to people like them abusing the system. I have free medical through my job, but to add my wife and 2 kids is almost 1400 dollars a month. We can't afford that, ever. My son is 17 and daughter 10...they have never had medical insurance. Ever.
I cannot imagine what y'all deal with every day in the ER...deadbeats everywhere. Plus the opioid crisis...
