{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-sharice-davids-votes-protect-people-pre-existing-conditions-lower", "Rep. Sharice Davids Votes to Protect People with Pre-existing Conditions, Lower Prescription Drug Prices", "2019-05-09", "2019", "2019-05", "Democrat", "House", "KS", "Sharice Davids", "D000629", "davids.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Rep. ShariceDavidsvoted this week to pass legislation that would protect people with pre-existing conditions and move further to lower health costs and prescription drug prices for all Americans.\n\nAffordable health care that protects people with pre-existing conditions is a priority for Kansans, and it's been one of my top priorities since taking office. These pieces of legislation will helptobring down the rising costs of health care and prescription drugs for Kansas families, while also ensuring we keep life-saving protections for those with pre-existing conditions in place,saidDavids.\n\nThis comes on the heels of the Trump Administrations' continued attacks on health careby asking afederal appealscourtto not only strike down protections for people with pre-existing conditions, but to eliminate every protection and benefit provided by the Affordable Care Act.\n\nOver 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions  common things like asthma, cancer or diabetesare protected under the ACA. This Administration's attempts to take away those vital protections will take us back to a time when people can be denied coverage, or priced out of their coverage, just because they have a pre-existing condition. We can't go back,saidDavids.\n\nToday the House passedH.R. 986, the Protecting Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions Act,which Davids co-sponsored. The legislation aimsto reverse the Administration's efforts to eliminate life-saving protections for people with pre-existing conditions and push Americans into junk insurance plans that discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions and do not cover essential benefits.\n\nTheHousealso passed two bipartisan bills yesterday,H.R. 1503andH.R. 1520,to lower the price of prescription drugs by removing some of the barriers to generics coming to market.\n\nDavidshas been a vocal advocate of lowering prescription drug prices and protecting people with pre-existing conditions, addressing these issues during herpublicroundtableandtown hallconversations in the Third District.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-sharice-davids-votes-protect-people-pre-existing-conditions-lower"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9483869653195143, "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"}