[MichaelCollins]

Hospitals help not only the patients, but also the firefighters who are responsible for those patients before handing them off to the hospitals. And they provide that service to the firefighters without charging the firefighters.

> The guys charging $100 for a box of tissues don't get to become collectivists all of the sudden.

When you say "don't get to be", do you mean shouldn't get to be? Are you sure the firefighters did actually charge the hospital for this?

[willcipriano]

They don't provide the service to the firefighters, they provide it to the patient at a massively inflated cost.

[MichaelCollins]

They do both, they are related but distinct services.

[JshWright]

What service do they provide to firefighters? That's like saying a concert hall provides a service to the taxi cab driver who drops off a patron.

(Paramedics do _way_ more than just provide a taxi service, but that's the bit that's relevant to the analogy)