Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand - Part 5

[GreyCrow]

I have ambulance cover - never needed it - assume I get a free ride

 

[Off The Couch]

I have ambulance cover - never needed it - assume I get a free ride

My daughter (different one) has it as part of her health cover but it’s been marked as non urgent and apparently you have to buy that as an extra

 

[rocker_oz33]

One bloke at my old job passed out , so someone called him an ampo.
When it rocked up he run and hide because he thought he had to buy for it ...lol.
Did nt know work would of paid.

 

[rocker_oz33]

My daughter (different one) has it as part of her health cover but it’s been marked as non urgent and apparently you have to buy that as an extra

The non hair cut one ?

 

[nobbyiscool]

At the risk of incurring the wrath of

Ambulance Bill $1200


It is though a specialist service

Costs like 50 bucks a year to insure yourself though.

 

[Gralin]

Isn't our Universal public health great?

No dental no mental health no ambulance in some states

Glasses? Sorry, hearing aids? Sorry

Shit good luck seeing a GP for free these days and hope you can afford your prescription

 

[JackOutback]

 

[GreyCrow]

One bloke at my old job passed out , so someone called him an ampo.
When it rocked up he run and hide because he thought he had to buy for it ...lol.
Did nt know work would of paid.

While I was struggling with my health issues my boss asked me if I had cover - I said no and said if I collapse and someone calls an ambulance I am not paying for it

He looked shocked that someone would push back on that

Then again he didnt like it when I called him a Fhead 14 months later either

 

[rocker_oz33]

While I was struggling with my health issues my boss asked me if I had cover - I said no and said if I collapse and someone calls an ambulance I am not paying for it

He looked shocked that someone would push back on that

Then again he didnt like it when I called him a Fhead 14 months later either

My understanding the workplace pays for it.

Again I'm prob wrong .

Hope your over your heath issues.

 

[Off The Couch]

Costs like 50 bucks a year to insure yourself though.

Thanks

 

[nobbyiscool]

Thanks

It's also worth noting that, based on personal experience (with friends, not in a professional capacity), ambos take this membership really personally too. They really do see membership as a vote of support in them, similar to how sporting clubs do.

 

[GreyCrow]

In SA if you DONT have cover

Incident response type	Call out fee	Cost per Km
Retrievals Fee for Compensable Patients	$4099.00	N/A
Emergency*	$1171.00	$6.70
Non-Emergency*	$262.00	$6.70
Treat, no transport (Treatment at scene, no ambulance transport required)^	$262.00	N/A

With my level of cover

	Standard Cover (Annual)	I/S Need
Family	$198	$233.75
Single	$99.50	$117.50
Pensioner Concession Family	$118	$153.75
Pensioner Concession Single	$59.50	$77.50

 

[Cruyff14]

Ambulance cover in Vic is $50. Not sure why you wouldn't get it at that price.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Ambulance cover in Vic is $50. Not sure why you wouldn't get it at that price.

Ambulance in Queensland is free. I’ve had two trips in the past two years, none ever before that.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Thank goodness we’ve got ambo cover, we’ve needed them 4 times in 7 years, would have cost us like $9k I think.

 

[raskolnikov]

I'm in Queensland and what is this "ambulance fee"?

 

[raskolnikov]

Apparently we're covered even if we're interstate.

 

[Mofra]

Front End Loader for the win.

They, and Ammonia, we're grossly underrated.

And I saw The Fauves every chance I got too.

 

[Mofra]

My understanding the workplace pays for it.

Again I'm prob wrong .

Hope your over your heath issues.

Yep I had mine covered by work a few years ago. I had it included with my private health insurance but it came out of the workplace insurance pool.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Not a novel observation but I find tattoos something I struggle to appreciate
About 20 or so years ago when they started becoming popular outside the criminal classes, I thought it would be a passing fad but looks like here to stay

 

[Gavin Excell]

My stamp duty on the place we bought last year is apart from the house itself, the biggest individual cost I've ever had

 

[Gralin]

Not a novel observation but I find tattoos something I struggle to appreciate
About 20 or so years ago when they started becoming popular outside the criminal classes, I thought it would be a passing fad but looks like here to stay

Lol criminal classes

You forgot sailors and rock stars

 

[Gough]

Not a novel observation but I find tattoos something I struggle to appreciate
About 20 or so years ago when they started becoming popular outside the criminal classes, I thought it would be a passing fad but looks like here to stay

I was still at high school when I got my first, it went down about as well you'd expect and exactly as I'd hoped.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Lol criminal classe
You forgot sailors and rock stars

And the gin sodden wenches seeing off the lads at Southampton Pier

 

[Gralin]

And the gin sodden wenches seeing off the lads at Southampton Pier

gin has gone up market these days