From: Bill Lucy 

In article , nomail{at}hotmail.com says...
> This is really strange, this thread is the first I've ever heard of $1,000
> ambulance rides, I've never been charged and until now never talked to
> anyone that had. It must be a blue city thing.

Even in Toronto, it seems:

http://www.toronto.ca/ems/overview/cost.htm

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