You may have heard the old saying that no good deed goes unpunished.... well, here is a perfect example. A lifeguard saves a young boy from drowning in the ocean surf and gets charged $2,600 for his own medical treatment... including a $1,907 bill for a 15 mile ambulance ride to the ER. What makes me mad is the fact that the 12 yr old kid he saved rode in the same ambulance.. and is probably being billed the same amount. Just legalized robbery!
Lifeguard gets $2,600 bill after rescuing boy from surf
By Ron Recinto | The Lookout 3 hrs ago
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/lifeguard-gets-2-600-bill-rescuing-boy-surf-130832240.html
Seventeen-year-old John Clark of Vancouver, Wash., knew what to do when he saw a boy struggling to stay afloat in the surf off the Oregon coast.
The trained pool lifeguard jumped through the breakers and heavy swells to reach the boy in the ocean, reports KOIN-TV. Clark then calmed the boy and kept him afloat until watercraft arrived to take them to shore.
"I don't know exactly how big the swells were," Clark told the TV station, "but they were big enough to push both of us underwaterall the way down to where we were touching sand."
An ambulance came and took the 12-year-old boy, wrapped in a towel, and Clarkwho complained of a headacheto the hospital.
Clark thought it was standard procedure until a few weeks later when he was shocked at the bill from the hospital.
The emergency room bill came to $449. The physician's bill was $227. The 15-mile ride in the ambulance was $1,907. The total bill for saving a young man's life was nearly $2,600.
"I had a feeling there would be a bill," Clark told the news station. "But I didn't know how much it would be, and I kind of feel bad for the fact that it's so expensive. But I couldn't just let the kid goI had to do something."
He and his family are making arrangements to pay the bill.
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Lifeguard gets $2,600 bill after rescuing boy from surf
By Ron Recinto | The Lookout 3 hrs ago
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/lifeguard-gets-2-600-bill-rescuing-boy-surf-130832240.html
Seventeen-year-old John Clark of Vancouver, Wash., knew what to do when he saw a boy struggling to stay afloat in the surf off the Oregon coast.
The trained pool lifeguard jumped through the breakers and heavy swells to reach the boy in the ocean, reports KOIN-TV. Clark then calmed the boy and kept him afloat until watercraft arrived to take them to shore.
"I don't know exactly how big the swells were," Clark told the TV station, "but they were big enough to push both of us underwaterall the way down to where we were touching sand."
An ambulance came and took the 12-year-old boy, wrapped in a towel, and Clarkwho complained of a headacheto the hospital.
Clark thought it was standard procedure until a few weeks later when he was shocked at the bill from the hospital.
The emergency room bill came to $449. The physician's bill was $227. The 15-mile ride in the ambulance was $1,907. The total bill for saving a young man's life was nearly $2,600.
"I had a feeling there would be a bill," Clark told the news station. "But I didn't know how much it would be, and I kind of feel bad for the fact that it's so expensive. But I couldn't just let the kid goI had to do something."
He and his family are making arrangements to pay the bill.
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