Public Health Services - Transparency for charges
It is not common knowledge (or even practical) to look on your website for ambulance charges in an emergency. I had to use an ambulance in July of this year and I learned AFTER I used this service that it cost me $1,000. Health care policy info along with local ambulance charges should be loaded into emergency responder computers for real time communication of charges. In a free market, customers are made aware of charges for purchases and it should not be different with purchasing health services! Transparency of charges should be made up front!
That’s an interesting solution. It would require a change in law to require ambulance companies to do that. You might want to talk to your state legislators about the idea.