"No Ambulance Available" for US Marshal Attacked on Video

I will admit that I am on one.

But the news has been proving my point, one incident after another.  There must be real changes to the way we deal with misuse of the 911 system.  Americans do not understand how things work.  And the system itself must be restructured as well.

In the above video we see someone attacking a federal Marshal.  He must then be transported by his coworkers, because AMR -- a private company that outsources ambulance services all across America -- doesn't have any crew to send.  The wait time is deemed too long by his coworkers.  So they throw him into a police car and take him to the hospital themselves.

Because he's a federal police officer, they are able to "make a federal case out of it" to the news, so to speak.  But this happens to regular people all the time, all across this country.  They get stabbed, have heart attacks, they die, because people are doing what Mitt Romney told them to do. 

People are calling 911 to use as a taxi service to the emergency room as primary care.  They do it all the time.  They're SWATting people who beat them at Fortnight.  They're Carlee Russell, or that little girl in Florida that I just wrote about.

But really, having AMR run our ambulance services instead of our counties is a problem in and of itself.  Because it puts a corporate middle-man between the people and our public servants, think about it.  As a paramedic I worked for "hospital corporations."  I never took sick time, because I accrued so little.  And I got sick enough to think I would die at least once.  It was easily the most toxic work environment I ever encountered, in every imaginable way.