Maggie's Farm

This is great. It's good to have people around with that kind of knowledge, and civic spirit. This is an example of how normal people can be involved in the community. The State, however, doesn't really want people to be involved. The one example to which I would refer is the ambulance service.

Those ambulance companies get around twenty five hundred dollars for each person they take to the hospital. That usually takes less than an hour. Really, an ambulance run should cost around five hundred dollars. And it would, if competition were allowed. But ambulances are just one of many sweetheart deals that drive prices up for everyone. The same thing goes for visits to the emergency room. That's also twenty five hundred dollars.

These rip-off artists are able to get away with this because of the awful political machine that steals as much money as possible. A lot of that ambulance money ends up in the pockets of our honorable politicians. So the first step in solving this problem is to require every ambulance company and hospital to publish prices.