i'd like to start with nicky pogue, if i pronounced that correctly. that's the author of the previously stated very helpful e-mail with eight points. and before, i didn't actually know, nicky, whether you are a man or a woman. now i know you're a woman. but the one thing i do want to say -- and mr. wagner, i'm not poking d. p.h., but there was one thing raised in nicky's first of eight points. that was an inaccurate statement made by the hospital spokesperson where in mr. andrews said we file like we have to recoup what we can from people who are insured because we're supporting people who don't have insurance. and i hope this is a misstatement of fact, but with that, i will turn it over to miss pogue, if i said that correctly. >> yes. district ten in san francisco. in september, i received a bill of $15,000. after insurance, i was left with a bill of $10,000. after months of fighting, the good news is united health care decided to cover this balance. let me itemize six issues for you. sf general expects the privatized to subsidize uninsured care. the

. >> stacey pogue is a consumer health advocate. >> one in every five patients th hier, it's one in threeonths after paying her deductible and copay, shapiro contacted the mediation hot line, it's a program unique to texas. the texas department of insurance sets up mediations between insurance companies and out of network hospitals to resolve surprise medical bills. within weeks shapiro's bill was surprisingly settled. >> there had been a contractual adjustment making my bill go from $5,469 to zero. >> that quickly? >> that quickly. >> reporter: last year the program negotiated $9.7 million worth of bills saving patients $8.4 million in medical expenses. 8,000 texans are expected to use the program this year. >> 8,000 is a tiny share of the number of texans who get su mediclls. >> how many are we talking? >> a quarter million texans g et a surprise medical bill over a two-year period in texas. >> i'm so thankful this is over, but i don't want other teachers to have to go through what i'm going through. >> mireya villarreal cbs news, austin, texas. >>> coming up only on cbs this morning, n

luckily the documentary leaked out of few months ago in this first clip you'll hear the voice of david pogue founder of of an organization that pays to send people to the apac conference. now that's a pro israel group admitting they manipulate congress with money but that's an anti-semitic trump. just because something is a troll doesn't mean it's always being talked about in that way as i don't like the hate crime like you like it may be an anti white people trope that white dude. but i doesn't mean you can't ever mention the word minutes without being racist. if i say john bolton is on how much of a. that's just factually accurate and later you know whether it's a trophy or not it's scientifically proven this guy is like this. they've done studies so it's quite clear that apac and other pro israel lobbying groups use massive amounts of money to influence congress in fact right now they're forcing through a bill that is designed to stop the b.d.s. movement you probably recall the b.d.s. movement is a push to get people to boycott products made in israel not because people have to do it but

. >> reporter: stacey pogue is a consumer health advocate. >> one in every five patients that goes tor. is going to get a surprise medical bill and in texas it is even higher, it is one in three. >> reporter: nine months after paying her deductible and copayi hot line, it's a program unique to texas. the texas department of insurance sets up mediations between insurance companies and out of network hospitals to resolve surprise medical bills. within weeks schapiro's bill was surprisingly settled. >> there had been a contractual adjustment making my bill go from $5,469 to 0. >> reporter: that quickly? >> that quickly. >> reporter: last year the program negotiated 9.7 million dollars worth of bills, saving patients $8.4 million in medical expenses. 8,000 texans are expected to use the program this year. >> 8,000 is a tiny share of the number of texans who get surprise medical bills. >> reporter: how many are we talking? >> a quarter million texans get a surprise medical bill over a two year period in texas. >> i'm so thankful this is over, but i don't want other teachers to have to go t