Even countries with universal health insurance usually won’t cover helicopter rescue, you need travel insurance which covers mountaineering expeditions. Or you can just pay, it’s like 5k I’ve heard.
I can't believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this.
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Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
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.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
My wife was air lifted via fixed wing aircraft. The 45 min. flight was $55,000. Insurance covered $11,000.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Well, at least she wasn’t on Spirit Airlines.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
People don’t think California be like it is but it do
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I can’t believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this.
What the actual fuck are you talking about. This is fodder for all communities on this platform.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Screw that! Medicare costs money. I want mine covered by the taxes I already pay. Just cut out the wars and we’re good.
estrange_alien@leminal.space 5 hours ago
pretty sure i read that the guy is a nurse too… so what does that tell ya lol
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Knew how to walk ten miles while Impaled?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 6 hours ago
Hey I already pay so much for my healthcare premiums I can’t afford to pay for universal healthcare too.
tophneal@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
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.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
To everyone that downvoted this, I’m pretty sure dude is being sarcastic.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
You already pay more than what universal healthcare would be.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Sources about U.S. being the worst at health care in the world?
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 minutes ago
Source: Am American. Almost died from fucking gallstones.
paranoid@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I think we need more moths
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
Always wanting more moths, never planting more lamps. smh my head
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 3 hours ago
China, the second most major country, also considers healthcare as a human right
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That’s the slippery slope they were all worried about.
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 1 hour ago
Can’t be havin no goddamned commie human rights
ryper@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
In Canada we have universal healthcare but also ambulance fees. The healthcare may be free, but getting to it isn’t.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Call a designated driver?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You sure pissed me off trying to hit the voting button, OP!
(Good shitpost)
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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.
whc.unesco.org/en/list/1577/ eit.edu.au/the-ancient-aboriginal-engineering-of-…
twisted@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Ok, whatever dude.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I mean this truly: may you never share a predicament anything like the one described.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
You would have to provide sources, but I’d allow it.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Shitty clickbait! We will never know what happened to that poor hiker!
areakode@riskeratspizza.com 5 hours ago
Well, he didn’t get to the hospital via helicopter!
red_tomato@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
He saved money and everyone clapped
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Everyone clapped… until they didn’t get universal healthcare…