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14. Is Uber Good (or Bad) for Your Health?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Importance of Ambulances

The benefits of ambulances are obvious: they can get you to the hospital quickly. They're staffed with trained technicians and stocked with import medical equipment and supplies. But in a lot of states, there's no cap on what ambulance companies can charge. A single company could easily end up as the sole provider of ambulance rides in any given region. This is just a broken market that can never really work.

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