RetroFedI can't believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this.
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Shitty clickbait! We will never know what happened to that poor hiker!
Well, he didn’t get to the hospital via helicopter!
He saved money and everyone clapped
Everyone clapped… until they didn’t get universal healthcare…
pretty sure i read that the guy is a nurse too… so what does that tell ya lol
Knew how to walk ten miles while Impaled?
I think we need more moths
Always wanting more moths, never planting more lamps. smh my head
And I would walk 500 hundred miles and I would walk 500 more… to avoid ambulance cost
People starting the Camino de Santiago from Saint Jean Pier de Port sing this song too.
Screw that! Medicare costs money. I want mine covered by the taxes I already pay. Just cut out the wars and we’re good.
Are you kidding me!? I love paying taxes for Medicare that I’ll never get, as well as premiums to for profit health insurance that rejects the tests that my dr wants. Oh and I love that I still have to pay even more out of pocket when I get some odd bill six months later.
Why on earth would anyone in their right mind want to give that up!?
Even countries with universal health insurance usually won’t cover helicopter rescue, you need travel insurance which covers mountaineering expeditions. Or you have to risk paying, it’s like 5k I’ve heard.
My girlfriend had to be air lifted by helicopter in New Zealand. They didn’t want our insurance details, because their local insurance covered us already. This was in 2010, so no idea of this would still apply.
My wife was air lifted via fixed wing aircraft. The 45 min. flight was $55,000. Insurance covered $11,000.
You had to pay $44,000 out of pocket for a single flight?!
Well, at least she wasn’t on Spirit Airlines.
Norway covers it. We regularly see news about foreign tourists who either take stupid risks and have to be airlifted down, or tourists who book a night at one of the mountain cabins and then trigger a whole red cross search party with two helicopters when they don’t show up. So to those who consider mountaineering in Norway: be responsible, plan ahead, make sure you can contact someone if you change plans midway. It’s public money going towards your search & rescue.
Honestly… California pays a ton in rescuing stuck folks who got themselves into deadly situations… I’m really torn but I do think they have some responsibility in that.
People don’t think California be like it is but it do
Brazil does it
Free in most provinces in Canada.
In Germany it is covered as long as you are still in Germany.
Hell sometimes even the flight from another country back to Germany for surgery is covered.
Air ambulance services are free in Italy if you call the 118 or 112 and it’s an emergency
In Canada we have universal healthcare but also ambulance fees. The healthcare may be free, but getting to it isn’t.
It’s free if you’re on income support, otherwise it’s about $100.
Call a designated driver?
China, the second most major country, also considers healthcare as a human right
That’s the slippery slope they were all worried about.
Can’t be havin no goddamned commie human rights
Sources about U.S. being the worst at health care in the world?
Source: Am American. Almost died from fucking gallstones.
Exactly.
Since when is Lithuania a major country? And as I use voyager I got tricked by the screenshot xD
Take a W, brother
For the record, if anyone is in a serious situation and needs rescue, SAR is free in the US. A medical helicopter, on the other hand, is not.
SAR?
Search and rescue
As I said in another thread: Even if cost weren’t a factor, if I can walk out of there it’s a waste to use a helicopter.
I mean this truly: may you never share a predicament anything like the one described.
If I do don’t call a helicopter.
You would have to provide sources, but I’d allow it.
What the actual fuck are you talking about? This is fodder for all communities on this platform.
You sure pissed me off trying to hit the voting button, OP!
(Good shitpost)
Add india too to the denylist.
Hey I already pay so much for my healthcare premiums I can’t afford to pay for universal healthcare too.
lol Dudes, just bc it’s not got /s at the end, I don’t think you be taking this comment seriously. Obvious satire is obvious.
To everyone that downvoted this, I’m pretty sure dude is being sarcastic.
You already pay more than what universal healthcare would be.
The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape in southwestern Victoria is home to one of the oldest and most extensive aquaculture systems on Earth, built by the Gunditjmara people to farm kooyang — the short-finned eel (Anguilla australis).
About 6,600 years ago — and possibly much earlier — the Gunditjmara used the basalt rock from ancient lava flows of the Budj Bim volcano to construct a sophisticated network of channels, weirs, dams, and ponds across roughly 100 square kilometres around Lake Condah. Some stone channels were dug up to 200 metres long to divert water and exploit seasonal water-level changes, creating a managed wetland factory that trapped, stored, and harvested migrating eels.
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1577/
https://www.eit.edu.au/the-ancient-aboriginal-engineering-of-the-budj-bim-eel-traps/
Ok, whatever dude.