Please read my detailed comment about the cost to operate. Its extremely expensive and many many locations are being shut down because they dont make enough money to stay in business. Bad weather and maintenance keep helicopters from flying. Many times the flights don't get reimbursed even when they do fly. Cost to own and maintain all the equipment and staff is absolutely astronomical.
lots of air ambulances close bases down because of extreme expenses and low numbers of patients get flown. look it up. costs a couple million a year and some barely get enough flights.
Let's go ahead and not worry about care we're more worried about money than anything else wonderful and what a shock Texas gets it right again we always do
Fleet? There are only 1500 in the US. In my area only 5 with 2 that are on standby and one of them is Army. You're also not paying for just the one trip, you're paying to keep the crew and equipment standby for 12 hours. If the $50k bill is bad you maybe you should follow basic ATV safety guidelines (as in no one under 10 riding). They only call an air ambulance out if you're going to die otherwise. It isn't like an ambulance where you have plenty sitting around. If your using the air ambulance its because you need to move, fast. "Nobody should be surprised that a for profit company acts like a for profit company", this guy nailed it. If you don't like it maybe you should consider your healthcare when you vote for the guy wanting fewer regulations.
They also call Air Ambulances when the ground Ambulances would be caught in heavy traffic or weather, like an ice storm, forbids the ground Ambulances from taking the to roads.
I don’t think it’s fair that that one girls insurance covered the whole cost of her helicopter flight and other people in the video have to pay the full cost of their helicopter flight air methods is a company with a bad reputation charging how much they want to for helicopter flight’s where I live we have a helicopter called first flight
@@SplendidCoffee0 never make assumptions my friend. I do know because I was a firefighter for the same county it happened in. But hell I don't have to explain myself to incompetence or uneducated ignorance.
I work for a helicopter service and it's difficult to understand the prices. People don't realize the astronomical cost of operating and often not getting much business. A helicopter that costs $5-10 million dollars. Very frequent maintenance by a mechanic that is paid to work 24 hours s day. A pilot, nurse and Paramedic paid 24 hours a day. Living quarters for 8 people per helicopter, at least 3 vehicles for those crew to drive to the hospital and airport. Paid training, including travel, food and lodging to other states to maintain a Long list of certifications. . We have extremely expensive equipment and warehouses of disposable equipment that expires and must be thrown away. Over 90 percent of which is never used. So far in 2022, we have had 30 helicopter flights at our base. Thats less one flight a week, and in winter that usually drops to less than half that. Many of those flights are not covered by insurance so the company does not get reimbursed. It's very common for helicopter companies to go out of business because it is much too costly to operate the business and not much reimbursement.
A lot of air ambulance bases are closed each year because it costs too much to operate. Lets say that it costs $ 2 million per year to have one helicopter base in operation. And some bases only get 50 flights for the entire year because of bad weather and not having enough pilots to cover shifts because the airline industry is taking all the pilots because they can afford to pay more. Insurance doesn't pay for a lot of those flights. When the patient can't afford to pay, the bill gets forgiven. Now you have bases that cost $2 million per year and they aren't even making that much per year and they close. Do a google search on air ambulance bases closing . there are a lot that are closing.
This is Terrible! save your life and wind up homeless? That is terrible. To me it is not worth it, Yes, I believe they must inform the patient of the expected cost, or close down the Sky :Pirates! Force them to be up front with flight costs!
A lot of air ambulance bases are closed each year because it costs too much to operate. Lets say that it costs $ 2 million per year to have one helicopter base in operation. And some bases only get 50 flights for the entire year because of bad weather and not having enough pilots to cover shifts because the airline industry is taking all the pilots because they can afford to pay more. Insurance doesn't pay for a lot of those flights. When the patient can't afford to pay, the bill gets forgiven. Now you have bases that cost $2 million per year and they aren't even making that much per year and they close. Do a google search on air ambulance bases closing . there are a lot that are closing.
It doesn't cost 50k to even oporate the helicopter. The price is just stupid
Please read my detailed comment about the cost to operate. Its extremely expensive and many many locations are being shut down because they dont make enough money to stay in business. Bad weather and maintenance keep helicopters from flying. Many times the flights don't get reimbursed even when they do fly. Cost to own and maintain all the equipment and staff is absolutely astronomical.
I was flown from a corn field to Columbus ohio..32 min flight..charged me 72000...i bout shit my pants
It's called the flight to poverty.
better than descend into hell
Please read my detailed comment here about how extremely expensive it is to operate a helicopter company with very little reimbursement.
lots of air ambulances close bases down because of extreme expenses and low numbers of patients get flown. look it up. costs a couple million a year and some barely get enough flights.
Let's go ahead and not worry about care we're more worried about money than anything else wonderful and what a shock Texas gets it right again we always do
Only in America.
Fleet? There are only 1500 in the US. In my area only 5 with 2 that are on standby and one of them is Army.
You're also not paying for just the one trip, you're paying to keep the crew and equipment standby for 12 hours.
If the $50k bill is bad you maybe you should follow basic ATV safety guidelines (as in no one under 10 riding).
They only call an air ambulance out if you're going to die otherwise. It isn't like an ambulance where you have plenty sitting around. If your using the air ambulance its because you need to move, fast.
"Nobody should be surprised that a for profit company acts like a for profit company", this guy nailed it. If you don't like it maybe you should consider your healthcare when you vote for the guy wanting fewer regulations.
They also call Air Ambulances when the ground Ambulances would be caught in heavy traffic or weather, like an ice storm, forbids the ground Ambulances from taking the to roads.
You mean 24hrs
I don’t think it’s fair that that one girls insurance covered the whole cost of her helicopter flight and other people in the video have to pay the full cost of their helicopter flight air methods is a company with a bad reputation charging how much they want to for helicopter flight’s where I live we have a helicopter called first flight
I remembered emails from the Burning Man organization warning about a medevac bill that dwarfs any of these.
Thay wanted to fly me to columbus Georgia from heard co georgia for a small cut on my leg.
No they didn't
Unless that cut was actually a gash across your stomach, I doubt that you were airlifted over a cut.
@@SplendidCoffee0 never make assumptions my friend. I do know because I was a firefighter for the same county it happened in. But hell I don't have to explain myself to incompetence or uneducated ignorance.
I work for a helicopter service and it's difficult to understand the prices. People don't realize the astronomical cost of operating and often not getting much business. A helicopter that costs $5-10 million dollars. Very frequent maintenance by a mechanic that is paid to work 24 hours s day. A pilot, nurse and Paramedic paid 24 hours a day. Living quarters for 8 people per helicopter, at least 3 vehicles for those crew to drive to the hospital and airport. Paid training, including travel, food and lodging to other states to maintain a Long list of certifications. . We have extremely expensive equipment and warehouses of disposable equipment that expires and must be thrown away. Over 90 percent of which is never used. So far in 2022, we have had 30 helicopter flights at our base. Thats less one flight a week, and in winter that usually drops to less than half that. Many of those flights are not covered by insurance so the company does not get reimbursed. It's very common for helicopter companies to go out of business because it is much too costly to operate the business and not much reimbursement.
what price do you put on a life?
According to economists, it's around 4-10 million USD.
Wow
America Is the greatest country in the world.
If you're rich!
A lot of air ambulance bases are closed each year because it costs too much to operate. Lets say that it costs $ 2 million per year to have one helicopter base in operation. And some bases only get 50 flights for the entire year because of bad weather and not having enough pilots to cover shifts because the airline industry is taking all the pilots because they can afford to pay more. Insurance doesn't pay for a lot of those flights. When the patient can't afford to pay, the bill gets forgiven. Now you have bases that cost $2 million per year and they aren't even making that much per year and they close. Do a google search on air ambulance bases closing . there are a lot that are closing.
"I know that" you think i dont know that? Is it me? Its him right? Martin short
0h Wow
This is Terrible! save your life and wind up homeless? That is terrible. To me it is not worth it, Yes, I believe they must inform the patient of the expected cost, or close down the Sky :Pirates!
Force them to be up front with flight costs!
A lot of air ambulance bases are closed each year because it costs too much to operate. Lets say that it costs $ 2 million per year to have one helicopter base in operation. And some bases only get 50 flights for the entire year because of bad weather and not having enough pilots to cover shifts because the airline industry is taking all the pilots because they can afford to pay more. Insurance doesn't pay for a lot of those flights. When the patient can't afford to pay, the bill gets forgiven. Now you have bases that cost $2 million per year and they aren't even making that much per year and they close. Do a google search on air ambulance bases closing . there are a lot that are closing.