{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=361659", "Foxx Shares North Carolinians' Health Care Stories on House Floor", "2013-11-15", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "*Video/Audio Below*\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement on the personal impact the Affordable Care Act is having on 5th District residents and the Keep Your Plan Act:\n\n\u201cFifth District residents contact me every day to share how the President\u2019s Affordable Care Act is impacting them. Insurance policies are being cancelled \u2013 policies families liked and thought they could keep; premiums are increasing beyond what family budgets can handle; people\u2019s personal health coverage choices are being belittled by central government planners. Washington Democrats can\u2019t ignore their stories.\n\n\u201cThough Obamacare is the absolute wrong solution to America\u2019s health care challenges and won\u2019t be truly \u2018fixed\u2019 without full repeal, we should do all we can to protect Americans from the President\u2019s broken promises within the law \u2013 especially the central broken promise, that if Americans liked the health care plans they had, they could keep them.\n\n\u201cToday I voted in favor of the Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013. We are a nation of laws, not of \u2018administrative fixes.\u2019 In spite of the President\u2019s veto threat and the challenges to enact such a policy in the health care market with sufficient time, Americans deserve to have a legislative safeguard that says the plans they like and want to keep are not illegal under the law. It\u2019s not enough to take the President at his word.\u201d\n\nCongresswoman Foxx shared the personal health care stories of constituents from North Carolina\u2019s Fifth District whose health insurance policies have been deemed non-compliant with Affordable Care Act regulations. Video is below:\n\nBroken Obamacare Promises Hurt NC Families (Dawn from Wilkes County)\n\nFrom Dawn\u2019s letter to Congresswoman Foxx: \u201cThe Affordable Care Act has eliminated my current HSA with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina\u2026The ACA-compliant replacement policy which I have been offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield will have a $5,500 annual deductible and will cost $478.60 per month. Even with a 10% higher deductible, this new plan will cost $318.30 per month more than what I can now afford.\u201d\n\nFor Ruthann, How is this Affordable Care? (Ruthann from Hickory, NC)\n\nFrom Ruthann\u2019s letter to Congresswoman Foxx: \u201cIn effect, I am now relegated to a policy that will only be helpful in case of a catastrophic illness resulting in hospitalization.\u201d\n\nBroken Obamacare Promise Hurts Don (Don from Lexington)\n\nFrom Don\u2019s letter to Congresswoman Foxx: \u201cMy individual health plan\u2026cancels Jan 1st. What is being offered by\u2026Healthcare.gov is triple the cost. I'm unemployed and desperately trying to keep healthcare until I reach 65 late next year. The president said, \u2018If you like your health care plan, keep it.\u2019 Please do whatever you can to make that a reality and not another empty statement...\u201d\n\nMidge Wants to Keep the Insurance Plan She Likes (Midge from Alexander County)\n\nFrom Midge\u2019s letter to Congresswoman Foxx: \u201cI am one of the many\u2026policy holders whose policy was cancelled due to Obamacare mandates\u2026My policy was great, affordable, and I liked it. The most similar policy Blue Cross can put me on has higher deductibles, higher coinsurance, and coverage that I don't need.\u201d\n\nObamacare: Promises Matter (Michael from Davie County)\n\nFrom Michael\u2019s letter to Congresswoman Foxx: \u201cIt is now impossible for our family to afford private health insurance.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T22:39:47Z"]], "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://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=361659"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7973019964993, "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"}