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knockatize t1_j9rdh6r wrote

Reply to comment by RChickenMan in FDNY wants to up the cost of ambulance rides by more than 50% by NYY657545

Fine, call them free if you'd like.

You still can't endlessly dump false-alarm and non-emergency calls on EMTs and expect them to sit there and take it. Not for any wage.

You also don't want cops responding to non-emergencies, do you? That's the leftist talking point, but when some eager beaver fresh out of the academy arrives on the scene because such is the insistence of the Reddit masses, don't be shocked when a mentally-ill repeat caller who should have been in an inpatient facility gets plugged.

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RChickenMan t1_j9uur0i wrote

Well no, but you also can't expect people to sit there and take it when vast swaths of our society are unable to afford access to medical care?

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knockatize t1_j9uykmz wrote

Tell it to the people who waste emergency response resources, and the politicians who enable them. A whole lot of access opens up then, but politicians don’t want to be in the position of saying “no” to anybody.

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