Emergency services for a fee
My recommendation would be to make ambulance services paid. Since I work in the ambulance service in Tallinn, I see how many calls are not emergencies but rather a convenience service. It’s easy to call 112, and three staff members come and give paracetamol – people have no sense of responsibility for their health at all, nor for their children. ‘I am a taxpayer, and I can call an ambulance whenever I want’ is a quite common phrase told to the crew. It’s sad. The state’s budget suffers, and so do those who are genuinely in need of emergency care!
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Three years of mandatory work in Estonian healthcare
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An Estonian person waits for the 12th hour with a heart attack, thinking, ‘Why should I bother anyone?’ They could never afford such a service themselves, and many have been ‘saving up’ their whole lives just to get help in a dire emergency. The person making the suggestion is probably healthy and young.