#3 Making fee for ambulance

Today, we discussed the topic” Making a fee for ambulance”. The panels were Ryoji, Sori, Sachi, Sakiko, and me.
We were in different situations. I was a local government, Ms.Kashiwagi. Ryoji was a doctor, Mr.Shindo. Saori was a old woman who uses ambulances many times a year, her name was Yone. Sakiko was a woman who lives countryside with low income, her name was Shizuko. Sachi was a moderator.
Today, the number of ambulance is in short, but the frequency of mobilization is increasing year by year. And it costs about 50,000 yen to send an ambulance, to maintenance, and to buy tools which we use for treatment in an ambulance. This cost is paid by local government. However, there are some people who call ambulance for cantrip and because of minor injury as taxi. So, many hospitals are in trouble. Also, the cost is increasing, so local government is in trouble, too.
Then, local government demand 10,000yen to the people who used ambulance. It is the 20 percent of the cost to send an ambulance. However, because Shizuko’s income was low, she said that she could not pay. She said that she could pay 5,000 yen. But, Yone who uses ambulances about 10 times a year, so she would pay 50,000yen a year. And so, Ms.Kashiwagi made made offer the exception. She said that she would support such people who use ambulance more than 5times a year and who has chronic illness.
However, there were some problems. It seems penalty if the people who really need ambulances. And 5,000 yen is little expensive. I think that 5,000yen is not too expensive. But for homeless it is expensive and they can not pay.
And so, one audience made offer that we should charge 5,000 yen from only bad users and minor injury people.
I think it is good idea.