Robby Witt comedy influencer is calling California state lawmakers for the latest laws that have added new tariffs and confusing “deduction” of insurance in the first response services.
One of these laws made it so that the draft law on the ambulance travel of his young daughter would be more than twice as expensive as he provided security evidence.
In an exclusive interview with the Fox News Digital, Witt clashed by lawmakers after AB 716, a law that entered into force last year giving individuals uninsured deductions on health care payments.
It turns out that in the Witt case, having insurance doubled the price of the ambulance invoice compared to whether he was not insured – “the opposite” how he thought he should work.
“All your life has been told to you, right? How, you want to buy health insurance so that if something – God save us – happen, then you will get a lower rate than if you have not had insurance. This is what we all been told all our lives.
Although it is from the Los Angeles area, Witt also removed the San Jose City Council for unanimous voting this week to allow its fire department to bill the locals $ 427 for urgent medical care starting in 2026.
As a local associate of NBC Bay Area reported, “The demand for urgent medical care increased significantly after the Covid-19-with 911 incidents that reached the high level of all time since 2022,” leading to the proposal of Fire Chief Robert Sapien.
“Implementing a first response fee will approximate the department with other medical care providers, helping our community maintain critical life safety services through cost recovery from medical care payers,” Sapien told San Spotlight.
With the approval of the city, the San Jose Fire Department joins 23 other fire departments across the state that have implemented the first response fees.
Witt told Fox that he disagrees with the fees added.
“We pay high taxes in Ca to fund the fire departments. I do not like the idea of returning to nickel and coins in their time. As Americans, we have always been told to pay your taxes and it goes to police and fire,” he said.
“And now you still pay your taxes, but here comes an additional bill. This is not the right,” he said, adding his advice to the government: “If states/circuits/cities can mix in small operational efficiency with our tax dollars [they] It can keep these services functioning without having to go after citizens for new tariffs. This is the recipe. ”
However, the law across the country of California AB 716 is the one that hit the young father very close to the house.
Witt came out viral in Tiktok last month with a video describing his call with a healthcare company after his daughter received an ambulance in the hospital for an allergic reaction to food.
During the clip, which has been seen more than 30 million times, Witt detailed his confusion to a customer service member on the ambulance bill of $ 600 somewhat being morphmed into a $ 1,300 bill after he provided insurance evidence.
“We got a bill, and then we realized that you guys do not have our insurance, so we sent you the security, and it seems the bill grew,” Witt told the representatives in the now viral clip.
“All right, yes, so the first thing you got, this is a discount you received if you are uninsured. So you are not eligible to discount after you are insured,” the person replied.
As the representative explained, Witt’s insurance paid $ 1,078.85 for $ 2,342.14 ambulance travel, leaving it with nearly $ 1,300 left to pay.
Had he never provided insurance evidence, California’s law would have reached its $ 600 payment.
“All right, so I will get cheaper health care if I’m uninsured?” Witt asked the representative, emphasizing the ridicule of his situation.
As the representative in the call explained, Witt’s original invoice was so low was due to the California law, which forces that “a land ambulance provider will not require an uninsured or self-paying patient to pay one more than payment set by Medicare or Medicare for service, whichever.”
The father told Fox that he found the reasoning after the problematic law, stressing that people could simply leave the security to pay less.
“My real problem, I think, is that it is based on security and why this bill was not written on income based … So, in fact, you can have a higher income family than me who decides to say, you know what? We will not buy insurance. And now, all of a sudden, their ambulance bills will be cheaper, even though they are higher.”
He then called the lawmakers who came up with him.
“And so, you know, sometimes when they go to approve these things, I don’t know if they would finish IQ points to do it, but it just doesn’t make sense to me that you will offer discounts based on whether someone is secured and not based on their W-2 income.”
Putting the whole situation in perspective, he added, “I paid $ 10,000 in health care premiums a year, and I was worse on an ambulance trip than I didn’t do it.
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