603 Taxing Ambulance Rides
According to a story by WGRZ, from January 2006 to May 2009, an unemployed and uninsured man in Buffalo, NY took over 600 ambulance rides to the hospital. Guess how much it cost him: nothing. Guess how much it cost the taxpayers of New York: well, Medicaid doled out $118,158. In addition, the ambulance company had to eat another $250,000. But those numbers could have been much worse. The man claims he make at least another thousand requests for transportation that weren't fulfilled. Good grief.The problem with this situation, as I see it, is two-fold. The most obvious, of course, is the fact that this guy uses an ambulance as a taxi cab at the expense of others. But you also have to consider that the ambulance company probably has to raise the costs of their services just to recoup money they lose to people like this guy. It's no wonder health coverage is so expensive. Between frivolous law suits and moochers off the system, hospitals and emergency services have to find a way to continue operating.
If Obamacare is passed this Fall, you can bet that scenarios like this one will occur by the millions as people cash in on "free" health care. God save us all.
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