From The Register-Guard: When Zack Comar, a University of Oregon senior who’s an insulin-dependent diabetic, started feeling ill at a football game. Eugene’s Fire & EMS Department personnel transported him to the hospital.

His mother, Leslie Comar, received a $1,630 bill for the 1.5-mile transport.

Randy Groves — chief of the Eugene Fire & EMS and Springfield Fire & Life Safety departments, which merged on July 1 — concedes that this is a large bill and that Comar is “paying for more than just services provided for her son.”

In fact, 17% of transports pay for the entire system, a system that Groves calls “broken.”