How does Michael Bennet intend to tackle surprise medical billing?

Colorado Senator and 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Bennet was at the second annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday in a session designed around issues in healthcare.

Bennet spoke about Medicare for All, which he believes is doomed to fail, while also explaining that the overarching goal is to get to universal healthcare at the lowest price and the highest quality. He was being interviewed by Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost for global initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy.

Emanuel asked Bennet about how he would tackle the issue of surprise medical billing, where patients receive a bill for a procedure or test which they believed was covered by insurance. It can happen when during an emergency, the patient gets taken to a hospital that is out of network or is seen by an out-of-network physician.

And given that the Colorado senator is a sponsor of a bill to end this practice that often leads to financial hardships, Emanuel asked him to describe what that might look like.