Since when is Lithuania a major country? And as I use voyager I got tricked by the screenshot xD
And I would walk 500 hundred miles and I would walk 500 more… to avoid ambulance cost
People starting the Camino de Santiago from Saint Jean Pier de Port sing this song too.
For the record, if anyone is in a serious situation and needs rescue, SAR is free in the US. A medical helicopter, on the other hand, is not.
Screw that! Medicare costs money. I want mine covered by the taxes I already pay. Just cut out the wars and we’re good.
Even countries with universal health insurance usually won’t cover helicopter rescue, you need travel insurance which covers mountaineering expeditions. Or you have to risk paying, it’s like 5k I’ve heard.
Norway covers it. We regularly see news about foreign tourists who either take stupid risks and have to be airlifted down, or tourists who book a night at one of the mountain cabins and then trigger a whole red cross search party with two helicopters when they don’t show up. So to those who consider mountaineering in Norway: be responsible, plan ahead, make sure you can contact someone if you change plans midway. It’s public money going towards your search & rescue.
My girlfriend had to be air lifted by helicopter in New Zealand. They didn’t want our insurance details, because their local insurance covered us already. This was in 2010, so no idea of this would still apply.
My wife was air lifted via fixed wing aircraft. The 45 min. flight was $55,000. Insurance covered $11,000.
You had to pay $44,000 out of pocket for a single flight?!
Well, at least she wasn’t on Spirit Airlines.
Honestly… California pays a ton in rescuing stuck folks who got themselves into deadly situations… I’m really torn but I do think they have some responsibility in that.
People don’t think California be like it is but it do
Shitty clickbait! We will never know what happened to that poor hiker!
Well, he didn’t get to the hospital via helicopter!
He saved money and everyone clapped
Everyone clapped… until they didn’t get universal healthcare…
pretty sure i read that the guy is a nurse too… so what does that tell ya lol
Knew how to walk ten miles while Impaled?
I can’t believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this.
What the actual fuck are you talking about? This is fodder for all communities on this platform.
In Canada we have universal healthcare but also ambulance fees. The healthcare may be free, but getting to it isn’t.
Call a designated driver?
Sources about U.S. being the worst at health care in the world?
Source: Am American. Almost died from fucking gallstones.
Exactly.
China, the second most major country, also considers healthcare as a human right
That’s the slippery slope they were all worried about.
Can’t be havin no goddamned commie human rights
I think we need more moths
Always wanting more moths, never planting more lamps. smh my head
You sure pissed me off trying to hit the voting button, OP!
(Good shitpost)
You would have to provide sources, but I’d allow it.
As I said in another thread: Even if cost weren’t a factor, if I can walk out of there it’s a waste to use a helicopter.
I mean this truly: may you never share a predicament anything like the one described.
If I do don’t call a helicopter.
