Soooo, basically you have antidotal examples; correct me if I wrong but would not a contracted EMS service fit under this government control? Thus would it be cheaper? Black Water sir is NOT operated by the government it is in fact s privately held company by Mike Prince Brother of now Sec of Education Devoss. As a customer of Alaska waste I can assure you it is not cheaper, case in point they charge for recycling. No lowest bidder is not always bad, but it is not always good and when you are talking about the health and safety of our citizens I would say it matters. AFD in one of the top perhaps top two agencies in the nation for cardiac care and saves; you would dismantle that to what save money? I don't recall any private agency being named in a discussion of the top of any facet of EMS. Do the research AMR and Medwest have had many, many problems, AFD just needs to make some adjustments to its budgeting.