{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://pappas.house.gov/media/press-releases/pappas-goodlander-launch-bipartisan-plan-to-lower-health-care-costs", "Pappas, Goodlander Launch Bipartisan Plan to Lower Health Care Costs", "2025-12-04", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "NH", "Chris Pappas", "P000614", "pappas.house.gov", "pappas", "https://pappas.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) helped announce a new bipartisan health care framework, CommonGround 2025, led by Representatives Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) and Jen Kiggans (VA-02). The bipartisan framework includes a two-year extension of health insurance premium savings for American families, including a year of the enhanced Premium Tax Credits (ePTCs), with targeted modifications, to be voted on by December 18, 2025, in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The Members backing the framework have also co-signed a letter urging House and Senate leadership to meet with them to discuss the framework and a constructive pathway forward in both chambers.\n\nThe framework would also extend the open enrollment period for this year through March 19, 2026, as Pappas has led, with Goodlander joining, the call for the Department of Health and Human Services to do.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m continuing to work with colleagues to address health care affordability, and the framework we developed will extend health insurance cost savings for Granite Staters through the next two years,\u201d said Congressman Pappas. \u201cAs we near the end of the year, more and more families are confronting massive cost increases as they consider their coverage for next year, and we must work together to get a proposal to the House floor that will cut premiums and ensure families can make ends meet. I will continue working with anyone who is willing to come to the table in good faith to improve the lives of Granite Staters.\u201d\n\n\u201cLowering the sky-high cost of healthcare is a matter of life or death for people across New Hampshire,\u201d said Congresswoman Goodlander. \u201cTens of thousands of Granite Staters are just days away from losing their healthcare. Congress must act, and the bipartisan plan we launched today with a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers is a mission-critical step to protecting your healthcare and lowering your costs.\u201d\n\nA fact sheet on the bipartisan plan is available HERE.\n\nBackground:\n\nIn November Pappas led the call for the Trump administration to extend the ACA open enrollment period and subsequently introduced the Right to Enroll Act, which would require the Department of Health and Human Services to extend the enrollment period through May 1, 2026. As negotiations to extend these critical cost savings continue, Pappas\u2019s legislation would ensure families aren\u2019t forced to make decisions about their health care coverage for next year without sufficient time to consider their changing options.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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://pappas.house.gov/media/press-releases/pappas-goodlander-launch-bipartisan-plan-to-lower-health-care-costs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8003530092537403, "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"}