[pct-l] Cost of a SAR airlift

[Brick Robbins]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:13 AM,  <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:
> 1, Air Rescue by CalFire to their Hemet base - $0.00 - They treated it as a training mission.

CalFire is a government organization and the taxpayers paid for your
airlift. It doesn't really matter how they did the accounting
(Training, whatever). Ron Paul and his crowd would call this
"socialism."

Should the taxpayers have to pick this up or should we all have rescue
insurance as they do in Europe?

And those that don't choose to purchase insurance should be left to
die or rely solely on non governmental good Samaritans, as it was
their choice by not purchasing insurance?

This is a real question there are forces pushing our government that
direction, and we should really decide if that is the direction we
want to go.


The medical treatment after the rescue is a different issue.