My Buddy Just got screwed by COC

U said he COULD have skied down, that doesnt mean no further harm or danger will be done or put on him. It means yes he could have made it down, but this may have resulted in further injuries which for example could result in permanent brain damage. This may not have happened and he may have been fine,

but

is that really a risk you want to take, a risk that stays with you for the rest of your life
 
it's not a question of being able to afford it, i'm sure even a millionaire wouldn't want to pay for a heli evac...

but i see where you're coming from
 
i completely agree with you

basically everybody gets a raw deal from it

except whoever sold you a $3000 wheelbarrow

and the insurance company that should probably cover the transportation.

my friend got hurt at whistler too, and i'm pretty sure his insurance covered the ambulance ride, i could be wrong though.
 
I got hurt at COC a while ago and had to be ambulanced out (not heli'd), and it was free. it seems like they probably had to pay an outside company to lift you out, in which case, the bill is really from them not from COC.
 
i got an hour flight out of a fire this summer. oh. and i made 2 extra dollars an hour for being in the air
 
yeah man, i mean thats why they have you sign that waiver. Cuz they arent gonna pay for shit like that. But hopefully he can pay for that cuz thats a fat bill.
 
depends on where you are, here in the CT area we are encouraged to request lifestar if the scene looks serious, even without seeing the patients. the idea being, if lifestar IS needed, they are already on their way (which equals shorter transit time, which equals better patient outcomes). We turn them around somewhat regularly, and its considered normal.
however, i could see that not being the case somewhere else, seeing as how this is an urban area.
and yeah, 3gs is mad cheap for a ride.
 
my friends brother got into a car accident awhile ago and they lifestar-ed him to the hospital because one of his pupils was larger than the other which is a sign of brain damage. the only thing is that his eyes have always been like that and he was completely fine.. $6,000 for the ride.
 
unless he has insurance from a private company, Canadian universal healthcare will not cover it. if the evac was not 100% necessary it is not covered. my friend once showed symptoms of his medications reacting negatively so we called for an ambulance. in the end he was just coming down with a stomach bug and had to pay for the ambulance ride.

 
ye 3k is nothing, when i sliced an artery open while skiing i got an ambulance ride. the deductable was 2500

but still that sucks start a als payment fund
 
That sucks, but keep in mind what your paying for.

Emergency lifesaving with a VERY skilled nurse, flight paramedic, and the pilot, all of whom have gone to school for quite some time to do what they do best...save the lives of people that unexpectedly fuck up real bad.

Not to mention his life

 
in france health care is "free" because it comes out of the persons taxes. I don't think they pay a weekly fee, but rather taxes.

I really don't know how he got the bill, maybe you should explain a bit more. The Canadian healthcare system is 100x better than what we have here, so he should at least be grateful his bill was only 3000$. You'd be surprised to see how much shit can cost, especially in the US. Standardized medicine is honestly something we need to see in the near future, even if tax payers are the ones to sacrifice.

Anyways, I'm just curious on how things like that work.. You know, someone going across the border and getting hurt. Being that he isn't a legal tax payer and is a visitor, I don't know what % is suppose to be payed. In many cases, countries with standardized medicine pay for a majority of the care, but I really don't know how his case would work.
 
Sure, overseas they have healthcare for everybody, but they dont get the quality that we get here in the US. At least, thats what my patients tell me when they come here and rave about our healthcare.

Canadians, french, pretty much anyone european. What's great is when they come here and get our healthcare, their country pays for it, and occasionally send nurses from their home country to take over on the healthcare becuase ours is a little on the pricey side for them.

 
Dude, its times like these that I absolutely love Norway !

We get the sickest insurance - I have a free insurance from my job (Warehouse) that intitles me to the best medical care for free. A dude at my job broke his back when he tried to carry a 46" LCD screen. my job paid for a private jet to fly him to switzerland and then fly in one of the worlds leading spinal surgeons from the US to Switzerland and operate on the dude.

ohh, and airlifting to hospitals is free in norway. sorry about your bill :/
 
The only people that get that quality though are the people that can afford it. Not being rich myself I don't think I would be skiing if I didn't get free health care or if I was it would be groomers only. I've had four fractored bones and lots of sprains they're would be not much of a way for me to afford that if we where privatized.
 
heli insurance costs $10 a year per person. toally worth it, just incase you do have an accident and need heli assistance. it all depends on what company you go through as well. i have med star which is associated with other companies around the northwest.
 
this is why health insurance is worth it, i'll also go along with everyone else by saying it's not coc's fault
 
This is what travel insurance is for, getting hurt in another country. Costs about $100/week, not sure what the deductible is, probably $500. Kid's parents are idiots for not getting it. Also what does this have to do with COC. Fail.
 
Join DAN ( Divers Alert Network) you pay a small sum of money a year and if you ever need to get airlifted they cover it. JEA!
 
newschoolers---> sheeps

just read this thread

as soon as someone reads the first comment everyone else's opinion will be the same
 
got checked out at the ski patrol hut, then the ambulance took me to an off-mountain clinic. just the whistler village clinic.
 
Its the real world. Get some decent medical insurance. 3000 is cheap. A knee injury costs roughly $20,000.
 
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