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There’s a bill that is in the State Senate that was presented by congressman Mike Caruso to allow Hazolah to work in Florida. Right now they are not allowed to help and must call 911 right away. There is a vote on it tomorrow Monday April 26. We must make sure that the vote goes thru.
There is a video of Mike Caruso explaining why it is important to make this bill law. We must send emails and call ASAP so that it passes tomorrow. There is a huge group against it! Please email the Senator in charge [email protected]You really think it’s not going to pass?
why are they against?
An ambulance company bills insurance when they transport someone to the hospital. If Hatzola (or another company) starts transporting the city will lose money.
It’s a perfectly legitimate question to ask why Hatzola is needed. If the local 911 service has good response times and does a good job (I have no clue if they do or not) is it the best idea to raise millions of dollars to fund Hatzola? Maybe the money is better used elsewhere.It passed the House by a vote of 98 to 12, so the odds are good that it will be passed by the Senate.
For reference, it’s HB 805 – Volunteer Ambulance Services
@954, intersting half of the no votes came from Jews in South Florida
What rules of shomer negia? You admit yourself that a male hatzolah member treated your elderly mother (as he should and is allowed to). Do you think 911 EMT’s/paramedics are going to inappropriately touch women? You can argue that with 911 since you have a pretty good chance of getting a female EMT/paramedic maybe in this regard 911 should be your preferred option.
“who knows how long 911 would have taken”
The County knows. They keep track of this info.“OH and do the medics of 911 speak Yiddish???”
On the rare occasion that a patient only speaks yiddish and no has one else to translate maybe the Hatzlah EMT who speaks yiddish (apparently now all of them do) can translate.“911 would never have treated her the same.”
When happened when your mother needed to go to the hospital? Did the 911 responders treat her poorly and disrespectfully?Hatzalah was initially founded in response to the city’s/911 atrocious response times. Many other volunteer ambulance services were founded in non jewish neighborhoods for the exact same reason.
Well it passed so you can calm down now
Well it passed, so you can calm down now.
Fortunately, the Combating Public Disorder bill became law a week ago, so when the leftist mob starts protesting volunteer ambulance services, the violence will be limited.
it’s confusing to me that yiddem do not want Hazolah in their neighborhood
Is it the non-religious Jews who don’t want Hatzalah? If so, it’s not surprising.
How was Hatzalah of Florida operating until now, before this new law?
How was Hatzalah of Florida operating until now, before this new law?
The bill wasn’t needed simply for Hatzalah to exist. The bill authorizes them to use flashing red lights and sirens on their vehicles and to respond to emergencies:
Volunteer Ambulance Services: Authorizing certain medical staff of a volunteer ambulance service to use red lights on a privately owned vehicle under certain circumstances; authorizing vehicles of volunteer ambulance services to show or display red lights and operate emergency lights and sirens under certain circumstances; authorizing privately owned vehicles belonging to certain medical staff of a volunteer ambulance service to display or use red warning signals under certain circumstances; providing that county and municipal governments may not limit, prohibit, or prevent volunteer ambulance services from responding to emergencies or providing emergency medical services or transport within their respective jurisdictions, etc.
Hatzalah was operating in Florida until now by driving an ambulance with critically ill patients while driving at regular traffic flow, stopping at lights and not speeding?
They weren’t allowed to transport patients at all. They would come and care for patients, everything up to the point of transporting to a hospital. (And oftentimes, all before 911 even showed up.)
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