4. “The RAs in my dorm chose to call an ambulance even though I asked them not to when I required stitches in college. After an ambulance came,
I was taken to the hospital and treated. The ambulance travel was the most costly aspect of the therapy, according to the bill I later got. It cost $800.
How was I (or the RAs who phoned 911 for me) expected to know that the ambulance was a private ambulance that was not connected to the city paramedics and,
Therefore, was not covered by my insurance? Furthermore, I wasn’t in a really dire position. The patient just suffers due of circumstances beyond their control since.
They would not have had time to confirm the sort of ambulance being dispatched if they were experiencing a heart attack or had been shot.
