If a US ambulance ride for 15 minutes costs $1,722 [1] then how much does evacuation via an Ecuadorian navy helicopter and then a jet back to a US hospital cost the insurer?
I think the plane was his, and was already there, so he probably picked up the tab for that one himself.
One thing to note is that there is a hospital at the location he was evacuated from, so if it was a true emergency, they could have operated right there.
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If a US ambulance ride for 15 minutes costs $1,722 [1] then how much does evacuation via an Ecuadorian navy helicopter and then a jet back to a US hospital cost the insurer?
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/health/think-the-er-was-ex...
I think the plane was his, and was already there, so he probably picked up the tab for that one himself.
One thing to note is that there is a hospital at the location he was evacuated from, so if it was a true emergency, they could have operated right there.
He probably flew Prime Air.
He could just have waited for some other diseases to appear and they would transport them for free!