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Why an ambulance ride can cost $12,873 – blame the hearse

For most of the twentieth century, if you needed an ambulance in America, a funeral home sent one — the only vehicle built to carry someone lying flat was the hearse. David Oks traces the whole expensive mess back to that arrangement: funeral homes ran cars that carried patients and coffins alike and barely charged, because "the family that called you for the ride to the hospital was likely to also call you for the funeral." — Read the rest The post Why an ambulance ride can cost $12,873 – blame the hearse appeared first on Boing Boing.

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