Let's talk ambulances.....

huh?  what?  You thought they were free???  lol Surprise!  No they are not.  Every ambulance you take is $45.00   But your parent is a senior...  too bad, it's still $45.00 and let me tell you something.  If you don't pay it St. Michael's hospital will sic a collection agency after you.  Actually after your elderly patient.  Not sure what other hospitals do but that's what St. Mike's does...   They don't realize that seniors on fixed incomes of Old Age Pension and the Supplement only have little left over at the end of the month if anything and that $45.00 means a significant amount of meals for them.  It's food in their tummies.  It's milk or vitamins for their frail bones.  But it's needed more in their coffers. 

A collection agency actually called my home.  I let them have it.  Next thing I know we get a letter, addressed to my elderly mom saying she needs to pay it to the collection agency or else.   that it will effect her credit rating!  She had 7 days to respond to the below letter.....

I responded..  hahahahahaha   I don't have my letter but the end of it told them they had 7 days to respond to me.  I also offered them 2 ways to pay off this $45.00   She could write them a cheque for 1 or 2 $ a month since that's about all she has left at the end of the month and I wanted a receipt for it each month.   Or..   they can sue her in small claims court for it and I'll gladly wheel her in with her oxygen and the media in tow.

Funny..   I never heard back from them.    Oddly enough though, when I paid for her phone last time she was here there it was on the bill but no one said a word about it.

Oh..  just another word about ambulance bills..   I was told that CCAC covers them but when I looked into it what a farce that was.  The co-ordinator wasn't sure and then said it was quite a convoluted system and he wasn't sure.  So now I've stack up 2 more ambulance bills in the last few weeks.  yea!