A Monopoly For The Ambulance Service????
Have you ever found yourself just speechless because of the total absurdity of something that is just so utterly unbelievable that it eventually causes you to laugh in order to keep from crying? That was my reaction to reading in the newspaper that the Giles County Ambulance Service Director is now requesting the Ambulance service be given a monopoly for the entire county.
As the Obama administration continues to dismantle the free market system of capitalism and replace it with the socialistic ideology of communism, Director Griggs seems to have fallen right in line with his request to have the Ambulance Service given a county wide monopoly for service.
Director Griggs, who is a very fine Paramedic who has shown skills and compassion in that important role, has been a total failure as an administrative Director. Under Director Griggs the Ambulance service has lost lost large amounts of money every year of his tenure. Even with the hiring of a professional debt collection agency that monitors all records and ambulance runs through their own computerized system the ambulance service continues to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. To solve this problem Director Griggs now request that no other ambulance service be allowed to respond to calls in the county.
One question is how can a private ambulance service dispatch a fully staffed ambulance from Lawrence County, Lincoln County or even from Alabama and still charge less and make money? Perhaps the answer lies in the term "private" as opposed to "government" run. I mean, how can an ambulance service charge almost a thousand dollars to take a patient from The Physicians and Surgeons office on cedar Lane to Hillside Hospital and still lose money?
There should not be any consideration of giving this dysfunctional service a monopoly, the only remaining consideration that should be entertained for this service is to sell it to a private company with a record of success.
Monopoly should always be a very nasty word in any free society. Only those supporting a broken , oppressive, government would seek to give more control of people's lives and resources to that government.
We can only hope the Full Commission will give this request the attention it deserves and laugh it right out of existence.
As the Obama administration continues to dismantle the free market system of capitalism and replace it with the socialistic ideology of communism, Director Griggs seems to have fallen right in line with his request to have the Ambulance Service given a county wide monopoly for service.
Director Griggs, who is a very fine Paramedic who has shown skills and compassion in that important role, has been a total failure as an administrative Director. Under Director Griggs the Ambulance service has lost lost large amounts of money every year of his tenure. Even with the hiring of a professional debt collection agency that monitors all records and ambulance runs through their own computerized system the ambulance service continues to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. To solve this problem Director Griggs now request that no other ambulance service be allowed to respond to calls in the county.
One question is how can a private ambulance service dispatch a fully staffed ambulance from Lawrence County, Lincoln County or even from Alabama and still charge less and make money? Perhaps the answer lies in the term "private" as opposed to "government" run. I mean, how can an ambulance service charge almost a thousand dollars to take a patient from The Physicians and Surgeons office on cedar Lane to Hillside Hospital and still lose money?
There should not be any consideration of giving this dysfunctional service a monopoly, the only remaining consideration that should be entertained for this service is to sell it to a private company with a record of success.
Monopoly should always be a very nasty word in any free society. Only those supporting a broken , oppressive, government would seek to give more control of people's lives and resources to that government.
We can only hope the Full Commission will give this request the attention it deserves and laugh it right out of existence.
posted by Allen Barrett | 2:51 PM
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