{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-biggs-leads-push-robust-conservative-health-care-reform-framework", "Congressman Biggs Leads Push for Robust, Conservative Health Care Reform Framework", "2025-12-08", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "Andy Biggs", "B001302", "biggs.house.gov", "biggs", "https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Congressman Biggs delivered a comprehensive healthcare framework to House Leadership, calling forimmediate action on long-overdue conservative reform. The letter lays out a clear, detailed blueprint built on freedom, affordability, and patient choice, while rejecting the failed policies, inflated subsidies, and insurance-company carve-outs that have defined the failed Unaffordable Care Act.\n\nCongressman Biggs\u2019s framework highlights concrete, ready-to-implement policies that are already drafted, vetted, and in many cases prepared for floor action:\n\nRep. Greg Steube\u2019s ACCESS Act (H.R. 1157) redirects federal support to families instead of insurance companies and expands competition across state lines.\n\nSen. Rick Scott\u2019s More Affordable Care Act strengthens price transparency and delivers patient-controlled funding to lower premiums.\n\nRep. Andy Biggs\u2019s own Health Savings Accounts for All Act expands and modernizes HSAs by lifting limits and allowing funds to cover a broader range of expenses.\n\nOBBBA HSA Expansion (Section 71307) enhances HSA eligibility and flexibility, including for premiums and prescriptions.\n\nRep. Eric Burlison\u2019s MAHA Accounts Proposal sends federal dollars directly to policyholders to let families pick any insurance product they want.\n\nRep. Tim Walberg\u2019s Association Health Plans Act (H.R. 2528) allows small businesses to band together for more affordable group coverage.\n\nRep. Kevin Hern\u2019s Choice Arrangement Act (H.R. 5463) strengthens ICHRAs to give workers portable, tax-advantaged dollars for the plan of their choice.\n\nRep. Andy Biggs own Health Coverage Choice Act (H.R. 90) codifies Trump\u2019s 2018 rule allowing long-term, flexible coverage for up to ten years.\n\nRep. Bob Onder\u2019s Self-Insurance Protection Act (H.R. 2571) protects small employers\u2019 access to stop-loss insurance to keep self-insured premiums affordable.\n\nRep. Chip Roy\u2019s Direct Medical Care Freedom Act (H.R. 1140) allows patients to use tax-advantaged dollars for direct primary care arrangements.\n\nRep. Gary Palmer\u2019s New Health Options Act (H.R. 1776) creates an alternative market outside Obamacare with guaranteed coverage for preexisting conditions at lower cost.\n\nRep. Chris Smith\u2019s No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7) codifies and strengthens Hyde Amendment protections to block federal funds from financing abortion.\n\nRep. Morgan Griffith\u2019s Program Integrity and Anti-Fraud Reforms cracks down on fraud by strengthening income verification, ending silver loading, and codifying Trump-era integrity rules.\n\nRep. Andy Harris\u2019s Cash-Pay Patient Protections prevents discrimination against cash-paying patients to protect price competition.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s past time to reject the failing status quo and lead with bold solutions,\u201d said Congressman Biggs.\n\n\u201cThe House must lead with clarity and conviction. These reforms are ready, they\u2019re proven, and they should be on the floor immediately. If Republicans draw a clear line today, we can finally rebuild a health care system anchored in conservative principles and return control to patients rather than bureaucrats or insurance companies.\n\n\u201cRepublicans are overflowing with solutions; we have the ideas, the legislation, and the mandate from the American people. What we lack is urgency. It\u2019s time to show the country the depth of our ideas and the strength of our vision. Now is the moment to act.\u201d\n\nCosigners of the letter include: Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO), Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), and Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ).\n\nThe letter may be read here.", 1, "2026-04-04T05:28:40Z", "2026-04-04T05:30:10Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-biggs-leads-push-robust-conservative-health-care-reform-framework"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.470546005293727, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}