She quoted from a book called “Never Pay the First Bill,” by medical journalist Marshall Allen. The family went around the nation seeking answers but only found layers upon layers of issues. More: 'We are the mice': Brevard public forum reveals disturbing local stories of HCA HealthcareĬopelof said many of her constituents have had experiences where the process was either predatory or just irresponsible, something they've discussed in recent public hearings hosted by Copelof and others who are trying to repair local health care options. Copelof helped her call hospital leadership, which found billing had sent the expenses straight to the patient instead of their insurance company or Medicare first. “I’m afraid my husband is going to see these bills and it’s going to kill him,” the woman said. One woman came to her recently with a stack of bills for her husband’s medical care. 7 pointed to systemic failures and business practices they called predatory, which obfuscate and inflate bills, potentially driving individuals and households into life-altering debt.Ĭopelof spoke of numerous interactions with Brevard residents who come in with stacks of bills they don’t understand or sense are not justified.
"The bill needs to be improved by strengthening my office's authority to enforce this and other consumer protection laws against hospitals and violations."įolwell and his co-speakers Sept. "HB 1039, which seeks to protect North Carolina health care consumers, is a good bill with several strong provisions setting minimum standards for charity care, requiring transparency of charity care policies and hospital pricing, and establishing limitations on certain billing and collection practices," Stein said in a June statement, which Jones read at the public hearing.
Related: Mission Health raising employee pay by $22 million what about union members? To that end, Holly Jones, WNC representative for the state's Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein, read a statement supporting HB 1039. “This is not about people who do the work of health care. “Anyone who tries to call this political is lazy,” Folwell said, speaking at the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College to a room of nearly 20 and an online audience that reached 21 viewers at peak. Regardless, he thinks it’s something everyone, Democrat or Republican, can get behind.
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