Franz P. Sauerteig Years after the No Surprises Act was signed into law by President Trump in 2020, the Right to Live Act has passed the Senate and House and is heading to the President to be signed or vetoed. Achieving bipartisan support from both Republicans and Democrats, the bill proposes greatly expanding the U.S Fire administration’s role in collecting statistics, offering public education, and support state and local fire departments for emergency medical services (EMS), as well as requiring insurance companies to pay for out-of-network ambulance services at in-network rates and offering grants to encourage the elevation of EMS to be an essential service by expanding fire department medical services to include transportation. The No Surprises Act offered protections from unexpected out-of-network medical bills after fully taking effect on January 1st, 2022. Often accrued from emergencies where patients are unable to or have higher priorities than choosing where they wi...
Speculating on the Future