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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOhio Councilman pitches idea for 3 overdoses and you're out
Crooks and LiarsAn Ohio councilman has a novel approach to the opioid crisis in that state: Just stop responding to repeat overdose emergency calls. If they're so irresponsible they overdose over and over and need Narcan to be brought back from the edge of death, they're not worth saving, according to Councilman Dan Picard of Middletown, Ohio.
Via the Journal-News:
Saying the city needs to think outside the box, Middletown City Council member Dan Picard asked if it was possible for EMS to not respond to overdose calls.
Noting people with cancer dont get free chemotherapy from medics nor do people having heart attacks get a free heart bypass in an EMS run, Picard asked if there was a law that requires the city to respond to overdose calls.
Picard is frustrated over the fact that costs for Narcan doses are in excess of $100,000 when the city only budgeted $10,000.
Picard clearly appears to be a Republican, since he's also a proponent of privatizing emergency responders if costs keep being so high. God forbid he should pay one penny of taxes to help save lives.
Unless, of course, it's to force women to have babies. That is always okay with these guys.
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Ohio Councilman pitches idea for 3 overdoses and you're out (Original Post)
Jimbo101
Jun 2017
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Heck, why bother trying to solve the problem of Narcan being $100,000 a dose?
LonePirate
Jun 2017
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irisblue
(32,980 posts)1. So who will pick up the dead people?
Cold mfer
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,357 posts)2. Rationing healthcare, are we?
LonePirate
(13,424 posts)3. Heck, why bother trying to solve the problem of Narcan being $100,000 a dose?
Each day unearths a whole new layer of Republican idiocy and heartlessness.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)5. Naloxone is about $15-25 per dose right now
The cost for an EMS system isn't the drugs. It is paying the crews and the wear and tear on the ambulances and, the biggest cost, if it is increasing call volume enough you find yourself having to add another ambulance to cover the jurisdiction properly- and staffing an additional ambulance 24/7/365 is expensive.
procon
(15,805 posts)4. Sounds like a Death Panel to me. nt
anarch
(6,535 posts)6. why not just go full-on Duterte, and start summarily executing drug users?
And sure, privatize all first-responders, why not. If you can't afford to pay for fire protection, clearly your home or business should just be allowed to burn to the ground.
FreeState
(10,572 posts)7. GOP Party of Christian values... n/t