Double pump. Blood carries oxygen and many other substances around your body. Oxygen from your blood reacts with sugar in your cells to make energy. The waste product of this process, carbon dioxide, is carried away from your cells in your blood. Your heart is a single organ, but it acts as a double pump.
On average, an ambulance company will charge anywhere from $350 to as much as $2,000 for a trip without insurance. Even with health insurance, an ambulance ride may not be covered 100 percent. According to this LaTimes.com article, a patient was billed more than $1,538 for her ambulance ride.
However, paramedics and ambulance services are not mentioned in the Canada Health Act and are therefore not an insured service. Provinces may choose to subsidize some of the cost, usually just for patients with a valid provincial health card. Health insurance in Canada is universal and publicly funded, therefore the cost of emergency ambulance services is covered to some degree.