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Re:The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting [video] by brightball on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @03:04PM (#15134958)
There's a lady in South Carolina who's on medicaid that did that to the tune of costing the medicaid office about $400,000. I'll have to see if I can find the article.

EDIT: Found it http://www.live5news.com/story/22075845/live-5-news-investig...

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Re:The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting [video] by dogruck on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @03:22PM (#15135100)
Shameful to see the officials congratulate themselves on busting the lady after she copped a free ambulance ride 100 times.

Seems like she was merely hacking a horribly inefficient system.

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Re:The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting [video] by malcolmgreaves on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @04:15PM (#15135593)
Wrong: the shame is on the woman who knowingly abused the system and took money away from sick people. Just because you can hack a system doesn't mean that you should.
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Re:The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting [video] by cbhl on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:18PM (#15137430)
Okay, but why does an ambulance ride in America cost $4,000 a pop? An Uber travelling the same distance would cost $4, maybe $40.

This is health care costs being out of control right there.

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Re:The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting [video] by dogruck on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @04:33PM (#15135760)
What portion of the blame does the poor woman bear? What is the just punishment?

What about people who visit emergency rooms, for non-medical emergencies?

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Re:The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting [video] by brightball on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @03:41PM (#15135275)
Can't argue that. Can you imagine the liability from the ambulance staff if they just didn't pick her up though?
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Re:The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting [video] by dogruck on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @03:55PM (#15135410)
Yup, age old "that's not my job" strikes again.
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