Everything is a subscription now

I think it would be cool if they could bundle all of these subscriptions into a single payment that will fund all essential services. Not sure if anyone’s tried that before.

I have Ambulance+ so that the paramedic doesn't read ads to me the entire way. You get more bang for your buck if they're treating your injury instead.

Literally me when I have to watch a mid-CPR ad about Joe Rogan’s podcast

Ambulances costing anything anyway is such a marker of a failed society like wtf

I was asked if I wanted to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance after I got T-boned by an F150 and they followed it up with "the ride will cost $2000 if you don't have insurance" even though we were within walking distance of the hospital (like 500 yards).

I walked instead.
- Failed country

People will do this shit instead of paying higher taxes

America already has the highest healthcare spending per capita! We pay higher taxes AND do this shit
- We don’t just have higher healthcare spending. Our health care spending per capita is about double what it is in countries with universal healthcare.
People actively advocate for this instead of paying higher taxes
- The issue is that higher taxes won't solve it, lower taxes and a single payer or state owned healthcare system would.
  
  As it stands higher taxes will just drive up rates and line the pockets of insurance executives.
Universal healthcare is actually popular in the US. Pretty sure most polls show a majority want it. And one thing you have to do when determining how popular universal healthcare is you have to subtract out responses from the over 65 crowd. You do that because they are the demo most opposed to universal healthcare but they are also demo where most everyone is already on universal healthcare (Medicare). Subtract out their wildly hypocritical opinions and universal healthcare is wildly popular.

It’s just that liberal democracy never actually delivers what people want.

In Cyberpunk fiction, the privatization of essential medical services serves to show the decline of society

Hey, $60 is a good deal compared to the rates for CrashCart, DocWagon, or Trauma Team!

We live in a worse Shadowrun that doesn't even have an Awakening or AmerInd states taking back much of the US.
- We'd get to fight actual dragons of capitalism

What if ambulances, but with a subscription and also QR code swiping that's cloud computed on the blockchain with gamified incentives?

This is one of my absolute favourite memes. I love this so much.
The 30-something disroooopter

This meme is such a banger
You post this one often but I never tire of seeing it, thanks
- When techbros actually innovate something new I'll find something new to dunk them with.
This is a banger meme, especially with the text around him looking like shit I've seen on my ayahuasca trips. Gotta say though, these types of people will pretty much never do ayahuasca because you can't have cocaine or amphetamines within a few days of the trip unless you want to die.

is this the market responding to people using Uber to get to the hospital

It's a county government subsidizing ambulance costs, but in a stupid pay to opt-in way instead of just doing it. Just wait until the market starts doing shit like this - it'll be ghoulish.

The American healthcare system is a slot machine.
- Just wait until the market starts doing shit like this
  
  is this ironic because that's exactly what insurance does. this is just that 'public option' insurance but only for ambulances lol.
  
  and i'm sure it's brought on by insurance companies making their product so expensive & fighting to not pay anything, if anything i'm curious if these acute conditions will force local governments to do that for more than ambulance costs---but that's hindered by the hospitals generally not being public

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Turns out the lathe was also the torment nexus the whole time

you can signup for AmbulenceLX which costs just $120 a year, but comes with an AmbulanceLX Credit Card which gives 4% cash back on all medical co-pays, 2% cash back on gas, and 1% cash back at Evan's Country BBQ.

Hellworld. How many people could be paying for this?

For the sake of argument, per the 2020 census, Wake County has ~410K households.
At $60/household, that's ~$25M to cover all households.
Accepting that cost and depending on how you calculate the population, that's $20~25 per person per year to have free ambulances.
The budget for EMS in Wake County is $74M out of a $1800M total county budget.
1% of the budget reallocated and all ambulance services are free and it would certainly be less than that at scale. Just fucking reallocate the money.

ah but you see poor people are feckless and if you gave them free ambulances they'd only spend them on drugs and booze
- How could I forget about the moral hazard?
- If you didn't charge for ambulance rides the poor would abuse them and use them as taxis, laughing while hard-working law-abiding property-owning citizens would die from heart attacks because all the ambulances are busy driving irresponsible poor persons to liquor stores and drug dens.

Death to America

Fucking Wakeism ruining everything pronounjak-rage

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Couldn't the county just directly subsidize ambulance care lol. What a amerikkka-clap solution.

Wake county because people are always dying for fear of medical bankruptcy

In the case of an emergency the last thing you should worry about is paying for the ambulance — WHICH IS WHY THE GOD DAMN AMBULANCE SHOULD BE A FREE PUBLIC SERVICE YOU CRETINOUS VAMPIRES!!!

Countdown until they have EMS insurance that you pay for by the hour, when you think you're most likely to need it stonks-up

In less than 5 years, it’ll go from $60/year to $60/month.

The depressing thing is that if this does what it says it does then this is actually a really good deal. If this was being offered locally I'd probably get it tbh

I thought taxes were the subscription?