One once of rum, brandy, or vodka â or almost any other unsweetened, distilled alcohol -- has 65 calories, according to College Drinking: Changing the Culture, a program run by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Costs range from $12,000 to $25,000 per flight. Every year, an estimated 550,000 patients in the United States are flown by medical helicopters and small airplanes for emergencies that include car wrecks, hiking accidents and heart attacks, according to the Association of Air Medical Services.
Medicare may pay for emergency ambulance transportation in an airplane or helicopter if your health condition requires immediate and rapid ambulance transportation that ground transportation canât provide, and one of these applies: 1  Your pickup location can't be easily reached by ground transportation.