> emts are half volunteers > americans are so brainwashed they work for free two medics that get paid first world wages, the vehicle itself is probably financed from some old as fuck boomer company that owns the entire ambulance market, all the equipment inside is from israel and leased, the parking space the ambulance occupies and the upkeep of the building around it, the ambulance itself maintained by mechanics getting paid government wages, the workshop the mechanics need to do their maintenance and upkeep of that building, the technicians that maintain the equipment in the ambulance and restock it etc. when you add up all the real costs involved in providing a service like that in the first world, you'll see that it costs somebody $1000 per ride, if not the patient then the tax payer.
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