After a week of closed-door meetings, Mayor Ed Lee has come up with a two-track plan to deal with the crisis of confidence at the San Francisco Fire Department — starting with bringing in as many private ambulances as needed to help lower response times ASAP.What better proof than this there's no such thing as "public goods" ? Will progressives blame the Mises Institute , the Koch brothers, or free-market ideologues for this turn of events?
People have had to wait longer than the city goals of 10 minutes in emergencies and 20 minutes in nonemergencies for help to arrive.
“We need the public to have confidence that this is a top department,” Lee said Friday.
Paying private companies to set aside their ambulances would be a reversal for the Lee administration, which has said for months that the city lacks the money to make quick changes.
Sunday, October 05, 2014
San Francisco Channels Libertarianism: Mayor Lee turns to private ambulances to help solve 911 crisis
The San Francisco Chronicle reports: