WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) criticized a deal reached by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Reps. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) to “solve” the issue of surprise billing. Each year, millions of patients receive surprise medical bills in the mail from out-of-network providers after being discharged from an in-network ER. The lawmakers recently agreed to a proposal that would attempt to curb this practice via federal price-fixing, despite the negative repercussions of government intervention in healthcare including the narrowing of insurance networks over the past decade.