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Msg ID: 2711374 How will this affect the industry? +0/-1     
Author:Jake from State Farm
11/21/2021 8:10:53 AM

https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/surprise-air-ambulance-bills-bird%E2%80%99s-eye-view-sky-high-prices



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Msg ID: 2711375 How will this affect the industry? +2/-2     
Author:the note from the author...
11/21/2021 8:20:12 AM

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Alex lives in Washington, D.C., where he enjoys pickling vegetables, watching horror movies and coaching policy debate.



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Msg ID: 2711377 How will this affect the industry? +6/-1     
Author:so he's not your average
11/21/2021 8:29:51 AM

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slack jawed, mouth breathing, JH retard. 



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Msg ID: 2711394 How will this affect the industry? +1/-1     
Author:mirror
11/21/2021 11:49:14 AM

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you just described yourself!



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Msg ID: 2711457 How will this affect the industry? +0/-0     
Author:Oh man
11/21/2021 8:57:47 PM

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Sick burn 



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Msg ID: 2711472 It will result in base closings and terminations (NT) +0/-1     
Author:Anonymous
11/22/2021 12:30:20 AM

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Msg ID: 2711473 and a less robust, comprehensive air ambulance availability (NT) +0/-2     
Author:Anonymous
11/22/2021 12:32:43 AM

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Msg ID: 2711569 and a less robust, comprehensive air ambulance availability +0/-0     
Author:Air Ambulance
11/23/2021 11:33:18 AM

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 strength is not in saving lives, it is in reducing mortality, a far more expensive proposition.  

The industry could be down sized some if medical providers endeavor to put in service more ground ambulance capability, tele-medicine, and robotic surgery.

The oddest thing I ever saw in the air ambulance arena was doctors waiting close to their end of shift to call for air ambulance transport to a higher level of care.  Given those shift start and end times are fairly standard in the industry transport bottle necks needlessly arise.  

Study that and get the doctors under control and high utilization times demanding the presence of more air ambulance might just help resolve costs.

But, all probably too complicated considering doctors are considered off limits.  My FAA Medical Examiner commented to me that he can do whatever he wants to with respect to releasing pilots back to service - wrong.

Lot of arrogance in that community.



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Msg ID: 2711639 Necessary Downsizing +2/-0     
Author:BigT
11/23/2021 6:59:31 PM

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Here is what Aaron Todd- who probably knows better than anyone- said to a group of investors in 2015:

"And if you ask me personally, do we need 900 air medical helicopters to serve this country, I'd say probably not, maybe 500, 600 could do well, but it’s an open market, these are – we don’t have certificate of need restrictions."

 



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Msg ID: 2711648 Necessary Downsizing +0/-0     
Author:I Was In Colorado At Indoc The
11/23/2021 8:14:35 PM

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Week that he got a $900,000.00 quarterly bonus check. Did I say quarterly? I meant quarterly.



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Msg ID: 2711653 Credit where it's due... +0/-0     
Author:Uncle aaron
11/23/2021 9:53:33 PM

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Dude overextended the company, sold it AT its high, got an unobtanium parachute, and bailed. Just a couple years later company has to start severing its own limbs to survive under the new ownerships greed


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Msg ID: 2712968 How will this affect the industry? +0/-0     
Author:The cost
12/8/2021 2:57:22 PM

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of operating an air ambulance is not a secret, or lacking transparency, as the article mentions.

Line item accounting will bring ya within about 90% of the costs.



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