Person Asks For A Helicopter Instead Of An Ambulance To Prove Insurance Rules Make No Sense Helicopter Ambulance
Image credits:For the vast majority of human history, if you had a grievous injury or a particularly bad illness, you would simply die. While this does limit the number of decisions one would have to make, it’s pretty obvious that a system to quickly and effectively get people to a medical specialist is ultimately in everyone’s best interest.
Even as cars and roads were developed, this would still limit a potential patient to a location a land-based vehicle could reach. As often happens, war is a stimulus for innovation, so it’s not surprising that the first world war provided the blueprint for an air-medical service that started operating in the. The logic is simple, the outback is huge and flat, and a plane is a lot faster than a motor vehicle.
A careful reader probably can guess where this is going. That’s right, the vertical landing miracle, the helicopter. The practice of using this vehicle to evacuate heavily injured people from remote locations started during the Korean War, when US H-13 Sioux helicopters would be used in mountainous terrain. Viewers of M*A*S*H will recognize this vehicle, although most don’t know it was among the first instances of a helicopter.
Of course, the average person, thankfully, will never need an air ambulance evacuation. As it stands, this practice is still widely expensive, although a large bill is generally still preferable to death. In the US, the average price of one trip. The disparity in the price, a whooping $40’000, comes from the fact that these sorts of evacuations can range from picking up a person in a rural area to rescuing someone stranded on a mountain.
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