Date:   2/22/2008 10:17:24 AM ( 16 y ago)
Hits:   2,353
URL:   https://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1117428

0 of 0 (0%) readers agree with this message.  Hide votes     What is this?

Agreed, all the more reason for the 25% to be worth at least $200,000 per anum.

Agreed, there are still to be found out there in this country a near extinct volunteer firemen. The small town that I was raised in has always relied on these and still does. For as far back as I can remember, this same volunteer fire department always provided ambulance service as an auxiliary function of their volunteer efforts. Back in the day, the ambulance service often provided ambulance service separate from and outside of the needs specifically related to fire events. That was then. Then dates back at least 45 years. Somewhere during the past 5 to 10 years, this volunteer fire department phased out it's ambulance service, saying that it had become too expensive for them to support on a voluntary basis. There generally seemed to be 2 factors involved: #1, the propensity that people in general have increasingly attained over the intervening years to dial for ambulance service at the drop of a hat; #2, the proliferation of professional ambulance services who for a fee are quite happy to service people with an increasing propensity to call for ambulance services at the drop of a hat.

To clarify, when I say professional ambulance services in this context, I do not mean ambulance personnel who know any more or do any better with m ore skill what volunteer personnel are trained to do. These are professionals only from the perspective that they require money for what they do - per incident, and as such are trained in non emergency related skills that have to do with how to run a business, as regulated and dictated by the upper level managers of professional health care EMS services.

Additionally, it is my opinion that the #2 factor mentioned above is itself planned fallout also increasingly implemented in the wake of the advent of 911. People in general, yes even those who live out in the sticks, are proned to keeping their noses glued to televisions... all the better for the brains attached to those noses to be programmed to ingest whatever whack advice may be broadcast through the tube, like, be sure to take prescribed drugs for any and every little sniffle and quirk of health while continually looking over the shoulder in fear of the du jour bogeyman coming to get them. As just one example from the middle of one out in the sticks town that is likely characteristic of the modern day Anytown, USA Inc, this capacity for people to be continually in fear of something, anything, whatever the television may be hyping this week, has helped to put the local volunteer ambulance service out of operation. As it is now, people in this small town must now be serviced by a professional ambulance service that is housed / garaged on the other side the mountain, literally, separating this small town from another small town where the nearest professional ambulance service operates. Also note, small town #1, the one that no long has an ambulance service, does have a hospital located right on the edge of town. Town # 2 on the other side of the mountain does not have a hospital, but they have a professional ambulance service. It generally takes them 15 minutes give or take to drive over the mountain to reach the site of a terrorized, in fear 911 caller, and then takes another 45 seconds for them to drive this caller to the local hospital. Make sense? No. Professionally speaking, it makes enough cents to represent a growth cottage industry.

Just for kicks, people in the cities should spend a little more time in the small towns just for the sake of getting a less cluttered view of how the politics / culture engine functions. Bigger cities make this difficult. Being bigger and all, there is generally too much politics & culture engine running at any given moment for a person to see all the constituent components of the machinery. Often times the small town view allows a simplified view of this same machinery. For instance, the local hospital mentioned previously. In the past few years, some fianciers that included no few local doctors, decided to build a hotel-type retirement home. Imagine a decent sized big hotel, except, there are not hotel rooms inside, there are living units that old peopel can pay to live in as their retirement home. One of these was built at the edge of the same aforementioned small town, right beside the same hospital, with connectig / adjoining parking lots. This is basic supply & demand mentality applied to the old folks / hospital dynamic. IE> some people with some money got a bright idea to move the supply side of the formula closer to the factory, the med factory in this instance. Talk about JIT - Just In Time manufacturing utopia!

 

<< Return to the standard message view

fetched in 0.03 sec, referred by http://www.curezone.org/forums/fmp.asp?i=1117428