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.
But the ambulance ride and the care are billed separately. Many Silver plans â a lower-tier plan â require patients to pay an initial copay of $250 for the emergency room and $250 more for the transport, for example.