What part of “No ambulance fee” does Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett and certain members of the County Council not understand? In 2008, the council sided with Leggett and voted 5 to 4 to charge constituents’ insurance companies hundreds of dollars for each trip to the emergency room. In 2010, Montgomery voters overwhelmingly rejected the fee in referendum, the first and only time a county law was so vetoed by the public. Less than two years later, Leggett is trying to breathe life back into what should be a dead issue.
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