I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
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"We looked at ourselves as a fire department that helped out on medical calls, but we are recognizing now we are a medical care provider," said San Jose Fire Chief Robert Sapien.
That's why Sapien went before the City Council to ask to move forward with a plan to charge $427 for every medical call.
"We will bill insurance but we're not going after individual residents to collect the fees," said Mayor Matt Mahan.
The mayor and the other council members unanimously approved the plan, but only after a guarantee that residents won't be sent to collections for unpaid fees and there wouldn't be any impact to credit scores.
But could insurance costs still be charged to someone? Could that affect their insurance somehow?
But over all, it doesn't seem as bas as it sounds.
i, for one, trust the unaccountable officials' report that they have the guarantee of other unaccountable officials
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