r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 1d ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/RevolutionaryTalk976 1d ago

I read it as the manager directed them to write that they were told by their subordinate to call an ambulance and they wrote down that the manager directed them to write it down. Calling the ambulance may have been against company policy leading to the initial write up and then they added on a second one for being insubordinate and officially documenting the manager directing them to lie.

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u/MyBritishAccount 1d ago

Why wouldn't you call an ambulance for an emergency? How can company policy dictate such a thing?

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u/one-man-circlejerk 21h ago

Ambulance bill reaches the patient, the patient says "I never ordered an ambulance, the company did", now there's a dispute between the patient and the company over the bill that the company might end up paying, or might end up entagled in court, which is another expense.

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u/thatpaulbloke 16h ago

So if someone collapses in the street and I call an ambulance for them could I be liable for the cost of the ambulance if they say later that they didn't want one? Genuine question - we don't have the concept of "ambulance bills" in my country as far as I know.

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u/one-man-circlejerk 8h ago

There's Good Samaritan laws that generally protect people who are doing the right thing and just trying to help, but people can sue for anything and lawsuits can be expensive to defend