Influencer Rips State Insurance Law that doubled its ambulance bill

Comedy influencer Robby Witt He is calling California state legislators for recent laws that have added new rates and “discounts” of confused insurance to the services of first responders. One of these laws caused the bill for the ambulance trip of his little daughter to become more than double expensive after providing insurance voucher.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Witt hit legislators AB 716A law that came into force in California last year that gives discounts to people without insurance in medical care payments. It turns out that in the case of Witt, having doubled the insurance the price of the ambulance invoice compared to whether it was not insured, “opposite” how I thought it should work.

“All his life have told him, right? As, he wants to buy health insurance so that if something does not want it, it happens, then he will get a lower rate than if he did not have the insurance. As, that is what we have all told us all our life. And then the exact opposite happened,” Witt, who has more than 580,000 followers of Tiktok, told Fox.

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Although it is from the Los Angeles Area, Witt also started the San José City Council for unanimously voting this week to allow its fire department to invoice $ 427 for emergency medical care from 2026.

As a local Affiliate of the NBC Bay Area reported“The demand for emergency medical care increased significantly after the COVID-19 pandemic, with 911 incidents that reach the maximum of all time since 2022”, which leads to the proposal of the Chief of Firefighters Robert Sapien.

“Implementing a first responder rate will align the department with other medical care providers, helping our community to maintain critical life security services through the recovery of costs of medical care payers,” Sapien told the San José Spotlight.

With the approval of the city, the San José Fire Department joins the other 23 fire departments throughout the state that have implemented the rates of the first responders.

Witt told Fox that he does not agree with additional rates.

“We pay high taxes in CA to finance the Fire departments. I do not like the idea of ​​turning the people of Nickel and ten cents in their moment of necessity. As Americans, they have always told us to pay their taxes and that is destined to the police and fire, etc. “, said.

“And now he still pays his taxes, but here comes an additional invoice. That does not feel good,” he said, and added his own advice for the Government: “If the states/counties/cities could mix some operational efficiency with our tax dollars (they) could maintain these services without the need to go after citizens for new rates. That is the recipe.”

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However, Law AB 716 throughout the state of California is the one that hit the young father too close to home.

Witt was Viral in Tiktok Last month with a video that represents his phone call with a medical care company after his daughter took an ambulance to the hospital for an allergic reaction to food.

During the clip, which has been seen more than 30 million times, Witt detailed its confusion to a customer service member about the ambulance bill of $ 600 somehow transforming into an invoice of $ 1,300 after it provided an insurance test.

“We received an invoice and then realized that you did not have our insurance, so we sent you the insurance and it seems that the invoice went up,” Witt told the representative in the now viral clip.

“Well, yes, so the first thing you received, that is a discount that you received if you have no insurance. So, you are not eligible for the discount since you are insured,” the person replied on the line.

As the representative explained, Witt insurance paid $ 1,078.85 of the ambulance trip of $ 2,342.14, leaving it with almost $ 1,300 to pay. If I had never provided insurance voucher, the California law would have limited its payment to $ 600.

“Ok, then will I receive cheaper medical attention if I don’t have insurance?” Witt asked the representative, pointing out the ridicule of his situation.

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As the representative explained in the call, Witt’s original bill was so low was due to California’s law, which requires that “a land ambulance provider will not require a patient without insurance or a paid car patient who pays an amount more than the payment established by the amount of the Medi-Cal or Medicare service rate, which is greater.”

The father told Fox that he found the reasoning behind the law problematic, noting that people could choose not to have insurance to pay less.

“My real problem, I suppose, is that it is based on insurance and why this invoice was not written based on income … so in fact, I could have a higher income family than I decide to say, do you know what? ambulance invoices They will be cheaper, even though they are higher income. “

Then he called the legislators who came up.

“And so, sometimes, when they are going to legislate these things, I don’t know if they ran out of IQ points to do so, but it makes no sense to me that offers discounts depending on whether someone is insured and not based on their W-2 income.”

He put the entire situation in perspective, he added: “I paid $ 10,000 in medical service premiums a year, and was worse on an ambulance trip than if I did not do that. So only on the trip in ambulance, I should have an additional $ 10,000 in my pocket, and I would have received a cheaper bill.”

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