{"id":15994,"date":"2018-01-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15994"},"modified":"2018-01-16T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:24:03","slug":"people-are-using-ubers-instead-of-ambulances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2018\/people-are-using-ubers-instead-of-ambulances\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Using Ubers Instead Of Ambulances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/011618_1336_PeopleAreUs1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brad Jones wrote about an unexpected healthcare cost reduction method:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting into an ambulance can cost patients over $1,000 in the US.<\/li>\n<li>A study found that in cities where ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft are available, there is a 7% reduction in the number of people who travel in ambulances.<\/li>\n<li>There are dangers. A patient might call an Uber to the nearest hospital \u2013 only to find that hospital doesn&#8217;t have the right kinds of specialists, wasting what could be crucial time as the patient is moved to another hospital.<\/li>\n<li>But as long as patients are using them for non-critical emergencies it should reduce the demand for ambulance services, improving overall response times.<\/li>\n<li>This should also help reduce the overall cost of healthcare in the United States \u2013 which on a per capita basis is the highest in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/people-taking-ubers-avoid-ambulance-fees\/\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2017\/12\/uber-ambulance-substitute.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Jones wrote about an unexpected healthcare cost reduction method: Getting into an ambulance can cost patients over $1,000 in the US. A study found that in cities where ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft are available, there is a 7% reduction in the number of people who travel in ambulances. There are dangers. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/011618_1336_PeopleAreUs1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15994"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15998,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions\/15998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}