RChickenMan t1_j9rbjao wrote on February 24, 2023 at 12:22 AM

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

> going forward, use “taxpayer funded” if you prize honesty and accuracy

You can't truly expect the general population to integrate conservative talking points into their everyday speech. It's widely understood that "free" in the context of government services does indeed refer to taxpayer-funded. This whole "it's not free it's taxpayer-funded" thing isn't the "gotcha" that you think it is.

knockatize t1_j9rdh6r wrote on February 24, 2023 at 12:36 AM

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.

RChickenMan t1_j9uur0i wrote on February 24, 2023 at 6:50 PM

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?

knockatize t1_j9uykmz wrote on February 24, 2023 at 7:14 PM

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.