Comedian rips Calif. law in viral video that penalizes us for having insurance after ambulance bill skyrockets

Comedy influencer Robby Witt is calling out California state legislators for recent laws that have added new fees and confusing insurance “discounts” to first responder services.One of these laws made it so that the bill for his young daughter’s ambulance ride became more than twice as expensive after he provided proof of insurance.In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Witt slammed the lawmakers behind AB 716, a law that went into effect in California last year that gives uninsured individuals discounts on healthcare payments.

It turns out that in Witt’s case, having insurance doubled the price of the ambulance bill compared to if he was not insured – the “opposite” of how he thought it should work.“Your whole life you’ve been told, right? Like, you want to buy health insurance so that if something – God forbid – happens, then you will get a lower rate than if you didn’t have the insurance.Like, that’s what we’ve all been told our whole lives.

And then the exact opposite happened,” Witt, who has more than 580,000 TikTok followers, told Fox.Though he’s from the Los Angeles area, Witt also ripped the San Jose City Council for voting unanimously this week to allow its fire department to bill locals $427 for emergency medical care starting in 2026.As a local NBC Bay Area affiliate reported, “demand for emergency medical care significantly increased after the COVID-19 pandemic — with 911 incidents reaching all-time highs since 2022,” leading to the proposal from Fire Chief Robert Sapien.“Implementing a first responder fee will align the department with other medical care providers, helping our community to sustain critical life safety services through cost recovery from medical care payers,” Sapien told the San Jose Spotlight. With the city’s approval, San Jose’s Fire Department joins 23 other fire departments across the state that have implemented first-responder fees.Witt told Fox he disagrees with the ad...