10 miles to escape a bill

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• tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  In a lot of rescue situation if you can walk, you will walk. A helicopter has its own risks and issues.

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• WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And the fact that this is a twitter screenshot from the polymarket account is capitalism in a nutshell

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  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Selling the man made horrors at the edge of comprehension back to us as entertainment

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• TragicNotCute@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pretty wild stuff.

  The 32-year-old nurse, who works in wound care at a hospital in Billings, Montana, did a self-assessment. He was alert. There was little pain or blood. And the pole wasn’t moving. The group used a satellite-based communication device, a Garmin inReach, to contact local authorities and inform them of their plan to self-rescue.

  apnews.com/…/montana-hiker-impaled-pole-self-resc…

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  • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There was little pain or blood.

    The blood is all on the inside. That’s where it’s supposed to be right?

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    • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      When impaled by something, be it pole or knife, it is usually best to not pull it out because it kind of keeps it plugged to some extent. Also, if the right picture shows him impaled it doesn’t look like it hit any bigger blood vessel or pierce the lung.

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  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hope the AP at least got some kinda payment from Garmin for that pointless product plug

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  'Tis but a scratch!

  At least, having contacted EMS, they knew they weren’t going to have to drive to the hospital, and they could get the evac if they couldn’t make it. And they knew enough to be sure no major organs were pierced.

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• systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So glad I love in a first world country. Americans have no idea what civilized really is.

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  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Helicopter rescue costs are pretty common even in places with socialized healthcare, especially if they can be labeled as reckless extractions. Standard European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) generally do not cover mountain or helicopter rescue transport. A lot of different Alpine or Mountaineering Clubs offer insurance directly for this purpose as part of their fees.

    Which makes sense really. Socialized networks shouldn’t have to absorb the cost of people seeking a dangerous thrill. In the end it comes down to whether you want to treat the cancer of a couple children, or save a rich guy from a mountain and the consequences of his own poor decisions?

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• DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly, as a European, I’d try and to the same. Not because I’d need to pay 2.7 million dollars for a helicopter ride, but because I’d feel terrible occupying it for an hour, along with the rescue team, when someone else in the area could be dying.

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  • tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Same. I heard moutan rescue went up to someone looking a ride home. It was a sprained ankle. They where walked down.

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  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These are not the same pictures.

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even a regular ambulance bill sucks.

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  • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    here in Canada I had an accident once. Was loaded onto a STARS helicopter, flown 80 miles to the nearest city, unloaded into an ambulance for the rest of the trip to the hospital, x-rayed, stitches, and two surgeries.

    Only thing I paid for was a dollar for some really bad coffee from the hospital canteen.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My mom was on Medicare here in the US (the insurance that the disabled and elderly get, that Bernie based his single payer plan off of expanding). Her bowel ruptured, several hours in the ER, 1 hour helicopter ride, 30 days in the ICU, a few days in a step down, an ambulance ride 2 hours back to her house.

      Never got a bill for it.

      But nooooo, it’d be so horrible if all Americans had access to that.

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Here in Slovenia tourists with inappropriate mountaneering equipment constantly get hurt in the mountains and are rescued by helicopter without having to pay for anything.

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• lemmelemmy@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why this is a tweet from polymarket? Why America is such a cesspit?

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I can walk down don’t bother wasting a helicopter on me. Somebody else might need it.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  he’s going to be using “it’s only a flesh wound” the rest of his life.

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• Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  me_irl

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