A California dad’s account of getting billed more for his daughter’s medically needed ambulance ride because he has insurance has gone viral, with millions watching, and hearing, his stunning report.
It’s because of a new state law that requires a “discount” for uninsured people, but in his case the process billed a man four times as much because he has insurance. His insurance paid only a portion.
It is the Gateway Pundit that said it was “the latest example of how backward and broken California’s Democrat-run healthcare system has become.
It is Robby Witt who went to TikTook with his story.
He initially was billed $600 for the ride. Then when he informed officials he had insurance, his billed was jacked up to $2,342, of which is insurance paid less than $1,100, leaving the rest for him.
“This is not satire. This is the state of healthcare in America—a lifesaving ambulance ride for my daughter. The state of California is penalizing citizens who have insurance,” he said.
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He explained to the operator he got the bill for $600, then provided insurance information, and was billed more than double.
The first showed the state-mandated discount, he is told.
“Can I go back to the discount without the insurance?” he asks.
No, he is told. “Since you’re insured, you’re not eligible for the discount.”
How about canceling the insurance?
Not good enough, because that would have had to have been done before the service was needed, he’s told.
“You’re only eligible for the discount if you’re uninsured,” he is told.
He’s told, “This is just a new law that started in 2024—AB 716. The law is that you receive a discount if you’re uninsured. When we first send an invoice to the patient, we bill them as if they’re uninsured. If you’re insured, unfortunately, you’re not eligible for the discount.”
The Gateway Pundit noted Witt was interviewed by Fox:
“Your whole life you’ve been told, right? Like, you want to buy health insurance so that if something – God forbid – happens, then you will get a lower rate than if you didn’t have the insurance. Like, that’s what we’ve all been told our whole lives. And then the exact opposite happened. My real problem, I guess, is that it’s based off of insurance and why this bill wasn’t written based off of income… So in fact, you could have a higher-income family than me who decides to say, you know what? We’re not going to buy insurance. And now, all of a sudden, their ambulance bills are going to be cheaper, even though they’re higher income.”
He noted, “Sometimes when they go to legislate these things, I don’t know if they ran out of IQ points to get it done, but it just doesn’t make sense to me that you would offer discounts based on whether someone’s insured and not based off of their W-2 income.”
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