{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://levin.house.gov/press-release/rep-levin-highlights-aca-enrollment-deadline", "Rep. Levin Highlights ACA Enrollment Deadline", "2017-12-04", "2017", "2017-12", "Democrat", "House", "MI", "Sander Levin", "L000263", "levin.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Rep. Levin Highlights ACA Enrollment Deadline\n\u00a0\nROSEVILLE, MI \u2013 Rep. Sander Levin (MI-09) today met with individuals and organizations that help Michiganders enroll in health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).\u00a0 This year\u2019s ACA open enrollment period lasts only six weeks compared to 12 weeks last year and the deadline for signing up is December 15. \u00a0The meeting was held in Sterling Heights in the offices of ACCESS, one of the organizations helping Michiganders navigate their enrollment options. \u00a0\n\u00a0\nRep. Levin said, \u201cWe have to redouble our efforts to help people sign up for health insurance, especially as the Trump Administration is making enrollment more difficult by slashing funding for navigators, cutting the enrollment period in half, and threating steps that would increase premiums.\u00a0 Fortunately, here in Michigan, many dedicated organizations are actively working to help people enroll despite these hurdles. \u00a0I urge every Michigander without health insurance to sign up now.\u201d\n\u00a0\nIn a statement, ACCESS declared that \u201cThis open enrollment period, our agency was faced with unanticipated changes, such as a 33% program budget cut along with the shortened open enrollment period.\u201d\u00a0 But ACCESS also noted their successful enrollment efforts despite these challenges, including assisting 1,224 clients, 1,120 of which were assisted with enrolling in a health plan \u2013 705 through the ACA Marketplace and 415 through the Healthy Michigan Plan.\nThe Healthy Asian Americans Project stated \u201cSince the ACA became law, the individual mandate has helped to reduce the uninsured rates for Asian Americans by half. \u00a0Based on the data from the Congressional Budget Office estimated repealing the mandate will lead to 13 million people losing their health insurance and premiums will increase by 10 percent. \u00a0The recent tax bill passed in Senate can be very dangerous to our Asian communities.\u201d\nOrganizations attending today\u2019s meeting included: ACCESS Community Health and Research Center; Healthy Asian Americans Project; Chaldean Community Foundation; FernCare Free Clinic, Inc.; MyCare; and Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit.\n\u00a0\n###", 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://levin.house.gov/press-release/rep-levin-highlights-aca-enrollment-deadline"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6992960590869188, "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"}