88
Oregon ambulance struck cyclist, then billed him $1,800 for ride to hospital
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
88 points (93.1% liked)
Fuck Cars
9666 readers
64 users here now
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I can easily envision execs at for profit hospitals running the numbers on whether a new more percussive strategy would pencil out to raise profits. They're not in the business of providing healthcare, so it's just about net profits, your well being be damned.
I imagine they could sue to cover those costs though
Yes. That's part of the math. That's how Ford handled the Pinto. It was decided how much the lawsuits and fines would cost for the exploding cars and since they'd make more selling exploding cars than they'd lose to civil suits or government fines they went with more money and let people burn to death.