I’ve been in EMS for 38 years. I’ve been certified in MA for 36.
Technology has been available for DECADES to track every single ambulance operating on the road.
We don’t need shitty groups to gather and discuss multiple levels of BS which will certainly boil down to $$$.
BTW: this same exact state wide GPS tracking of every ambulance within a state boundaries should be implemented nationally.
I never worked for the privates, only volunteers and city EMS.
The problem I see is that if you let private ambulances take 911 calls, there are going to be sharks who going to figure out how to screw the system.
And of course every hamlet wants ‘their’ EMS and not those awful city folks.
Around here the privates are too busy with what their primary work/contracts require to sit to poach calls.
I think it would be a rare occasion to need to utilize one of them.