Within the first week that Austin Correll was driving for Lyft in the fall of 2021, he was sent to pick up passengers at an address that turned out to be for a hospital. When he pulled up to the curb, he found an elderly woman in a wheelchair and another other with a walker, waiting for him — flanked by four or five nurses.
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They literally are just sending normal drivers to do medical transport:
Drivers who do not sign up for Lyft and Uber’s assisted programs can be sent NEMT rides without any training. Drivers who want to participate in the assisted programs are required to take tutorials created by the Open Doors Organization (ODO), a non-profit organization that aims to “teach businesses how to succeed in the disability market.” They don’t include medical or emergency information, a spokesman for the company says: “I’d say it’s more just about customer service.”
A PR rep for Lyft says Lyft Healthcare should not be used for people who have “medical needs,”
its so cartoonishly a bad/evil idea that it wouldn't have worked as bad dystopian writing even 5 years ago
Literally no medical training, equipment, PPE, or certifications. Just the free market baby.
You have free healthcare sweetie, it's called taking an uber when you've been shot/stabbed by an anti-vaxx chud because you were wearing a mask or were asian.
Don’t worry, the uber driver will also be an anti-vaxx chud!
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If the "free market" ever when in the other direction, it would be more believable as a force that is able to find solutions to problems. "Ooops, turns out cars were a bad idea, free market is investing 100x into public transit" "Ooops, thousands dead from COVID, free market is making universal health care" "Ooops, the river is on fire, free market is making it legal to hunt oil CEOs"