{"id":12499,"date":"2015-05-07T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12499"},"modified":"2015-05-07T08:29:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T12:29:21","slug":"the-economics-of-helicopter-ambulances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-helicopter-ambulances\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Helicopter Ambulances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/050715_1220_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Eavis wrote about air ambulances:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The air ambulance business has been booming. Since insurers usually pay the costs, companies have expanded their fleets and increased their coverage.<\/li>\n<li>The ambulances save lives. However they&#8217;re falling upon hard times since insurers are beginning to ask consumers to pay more of their bills.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover rapid growth in the industry has left it with a problem of oversupply, with each helicopter flying a fifth less than it used to in 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Costs are high. Helicopters start at about $4 million and can cost much more.<\/li>\n<li>The average flight is estimated to cost anywhere between $7,400 and $10,000.<\/li>\n<li>The average bills has gone up from $17,200 five years earlier to $40,800 now.<\/li>\n<li>Those who go out of business first might be the non-profit ones who don&#8217;t have cash buffers for a decrease in demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the lobbyists that the industry has hired, the lengths that companies will go to, to collect debts, and many more details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/06\/business\/rescued-by-an-air-ambulance-but-stunned-at-the-sky-high-bill.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/06\/business\/rescued-by-an-air-ambulance-but-stunned-at-the-sky-high-bill.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Eavis wrote about air ambulances: The air ambulance business has been booming. Since insurers usually pay the costs, companies have expanded their fleets and increased their coverage. The ambulances save lives. However they&#8217;re falling upon hard times since insurers are beginning to ask consumers to pay more of their bills. Moreover rapid growth in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/050715_1220_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12502,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499\/revisions\/12502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}