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.
Submitted 2 months ago by wowwoweowza@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Gloomy@mander.xyz 2 months 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 2 months ago
My wife was air lifted via fixed wing aircraft. The 45 min. flight was $55,000. Insurance covered $11,000.
Photonic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You had to pay $44,000 out of pocket for a single flight?!
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, at least she wasn’t on Spirit Airlines.
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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. It’s all covered by the state.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
People don’t think California be like it is but it do
ttayh@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Brazil does it
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Free in most provinces in Canada.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 months ago
Air ambulance services are free in Italy if you call the 118 or 112 emergency number and it’s an emergency
Otherwise, if not urgent and for programmed transfers you can get a private air ambulance for 6 to 15k/hourJohanno@feddit.org 2 months ago
In Germany it is covered as long as you are still in Germany.
Hell sometimes even the flight from another country bqcj to Germany for surgery is covered.
estrange_alien@leminal.space 2 months ago
pretty sure i read that the guy is a nurse too… so what does that tell ya lol
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Knew how to walk ten miles while Impaled?
estrange_alien@leminal.space 2 months ago
that he would still rather walk 10 miles than pay for an airlift (a nurse is very likely to have decent insurance as well)
MurderHobo@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
I remember when my ex wife got her first LPN job on the way to her BSN. I thought for sure once she worked in a hospital it would have good insurance. It’s actually crazy how terrible the insurance is for medical employees. I had a way better plan available to me working for a ~100 person remodeling company, and it wasn’t a union gig either.
axh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And I would walk 500 hundred miles and I would walk 500 more… to avoid ambulance cost
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People starting the Camino de Santiago from Saint Jean Pier de Port sing this song too.
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Since when is Lithuania a major country? And as I use voyager I got tricked by the screenshot xD
tautalas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Take a W, brother
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nice! I didn’t even zoom in on the flags. Indeed. But I was flabbergasted by the coincidence of the one being right above the other. Strange days.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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!?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just cut out the wars
did someone besmirch my precious money hole
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 months ago
To everyone that downvoted this, I’m pretty sure dude is being sarcastic.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You already pay more than what universal healthcare would be.
paranoid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think we need more moths
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Always wanting more moths, never planting more lamps. smh my head
Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Add india too the denylist.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
While it’s not single payer it appears to be hugely subsidized and largely free in India.
Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah. But mostly it’s just a scam or low quality medicines. Thousands of government hospitals in india doesn’t have any facilities at all. Private hospitals are working to harvest money as much as possible. Even in government hospitals patients have to sleep in floor.
Also most of the health care products available in markets are not so healthy or even original products at all. People pay to buy things that destroy their health because of no other way.
They are saying india is improving by hiding all these ugly facts.
Btw, it’s really not so proud to say an indian. Never has been. 🫥
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Free for the poor. Others have to pay a nominal fee. I pay 2 rupees to see the doctor and 20-30 rupees for tests / medicines.
(100 rupees = 1 USD / Euro or 7 CNY approximately)
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 2 months ago
China, the second most major country, also considers healthcare as a human right
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s the slippery slope they were all worried about.
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 2 months ago
Can’t be havin no goddamned commie human rights
ryper@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
In Canada we have universal healthcare but also ambulance fees. The healthcare may be free, but getting to it isn’t.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It’s free if you’re on income support, otherwise it’s about $100.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Call a designated driver?
qqq@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It depends. SAR in my state is coordinated by our Fish & Wildlife Department and staffed with volunteers.
They will bill you if they determine you willfully caused the situation leading to you having to be extracted.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Ok, whatever dude.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sources about U.S. being the worst at health care in the world?
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Source: Am American. Almost died from fucking gallstones.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Exactly.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You sure pissed me off trying to hit the voting button, OP!
(Good shitpost)
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You would have to provide sources, but I’d allow it.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Shitty clickbait! We will never know what happened to that poor hiker!
areakode@riskeratspizza.com 2 months ago
Well, he didn’t get to the hospital via helicopter!
red_tomato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He saved money and everyone clapped
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everyone clapped… until they didn’t get universal healthcare…