Congresswoman Katie Porter (D, Calif.,) revealed in a subcommittee meeting that a tangled mess of health care bills she was facing was cleared up when a patient advocate told the insurance company Porter had been recently elected to the House of Representatives.
In a Tuesday hearing titled "Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills," the freshman representative told her personal story of needing an emergency appendectomy last August. She said she was shocked to get a bill for $3,000 because one of the surgeons was out of her provider network.
"As I continued to fight my insurance company, I kept receiving bills from the surgeon," she said at one point. "Eventually, nearly five months after I was hospitalized, the surgeon was forced to simply request payment."
Porter had also claimed in her remarks that some documents she received in the mail had said her surgeon was in-network, but this matter never seemed to ever be fully factually determined.
Moments later, she said how the entire bill became settled.
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6 comments:
Democrat corruption at it's best.
how nice for her!
That is politians exempting themselves from bills they pass. Watch for the kickbacks and bills favoring someone involved. Proves everyone is not equal.
your welcome you low life piece of congressanal crap. must be nice when WE pay your bill while we suffer
All of the prior commenters are not quite correct. Many of the medical doctors groups change members like movie stars change spouses. My wife has had to fight them several times. So far they have forgiven the fees by the out of network member. She is not a member of Congress and all it took was one phone call.
Will be declaring as income on taxes?
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