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by jaclaz
3100 days ago
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>Need more data to decide if this is an Uber propaganda piece. Well, they could ask Uber for all the rides they made to the ER and see if - roughly - the numbers match with the claimed 7% reduction of ambulance calls. I mean, a lot of people may have - coincidentally in the same period Uber came to the cities - become aware of the high cost of ambulance, or lost their insurance or whatever other reason and used taxis or some other means. After all the study takes into account what happened over very roughly 3 years 2012-2015, how many people read (say): http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/23/business/la-fi-healt... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/health/think-the-er-was-ex... If there was a "penetration rate" (which is not the same thing as "establishing the service") and a direct correlation with roughly the same number of UberX rides to the ER and of less ambulance calls then it would IMHO sound much more credible. |
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