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| https://walden.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/greg-walden-appears-msnbc-discusses-protecting-patients-surprise-medical | Greg Walden Appears on MSNBC, Discusses Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills | 2019-09-16 | 2019 | 2019-09 | Republican | House | OR | Greg Walden | W000791 | walden.house.gov | legacy | Click here or on the image above to watch Rep. Walden's interview. Last week, Representative Greg Walden (R-OR), Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on MSNBC with Katy Tur to explain how their bipartisan bill, the No Surprises Act, will help protect patients from surprise medical bills. Walden started off by telling the story of Sonji Wilkes, a women who testified before the Energy and Commerce Committee, "Her son, when born, had a medical issue. They rushed him into the neonatal intensive care unit 50 feet down from where she deliveredher son and then got a bill for fifty grand. Because while the hospital was in network guess what they contracted out their neonatal intensive care unit. She had no idea that had happened nor should she have to. And so these guys are making a lot of money off the backs of patients who are playing by the rules to the best of their ability and we're going to put a stop to it." He continued on and told Katyhow he and Chairman Palone are concerned with the private equity firms that are trying to put an end to their legislation. "We're sending them a letter Frank and I both are," said Walden."We have evidence where they buy the practice, take the physicians out of network and raise the rates by 96%. Guess who is paying that? It's people like you and me and our constituents. Then they decide whether they get back into network so this is an enormous scam, an enormous money drain on consumers. We want to be fair about the result. We want to hold harmless the consumer. We're open to having policy discussions about the best way to do that. We have a good compromise bill that's passed out of our committee unanimously but you know if they think they are going to intimidate us by 27 million by the way in advertising attack ads that scare people falsely, they're making a big mistake." For more on Walden's efforts to stop surprise medical bills, read his exclusive interview with Breitbart here. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |