{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases/spartz-affordability-subcommittee-releases-solutions-improve-health-care-value", "Spartz: Affordability Subcommittee Releases Solutions to Improve Health Care Value", "2022-07-14", "2022", "2022-07", "Republican", "House", "IN", "Victoria Spartz", "S000929", "spartz.house.gov", "spartz", "https://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "\u201cImproving health care value is a national security issue\u201d said Congresswoman Spartz. \u201cI appreciate the work of my colleagues to develop real policy solutions and deliver results on this important issue for all Americans.\u201d\n\n\u201cOur subcommittee is proud to present this plan to make health care more affordable by improving health care options for workers and small business owners, improving innovation and transparency, and lowering costs by increasing competition,\u201d said Rep. Kevin Hern, Chairman of the Affordability Subcommittee.\n\n\u201cWhen health care decisions are made by bureaucrats in Washington, the result is a top-down, one-size-fits-all system that never works,\u201d said Congressman Rick Allen. \u201cWe want all Americans to have a high-quality, affordable, and personalized approach to their health. To do that, we must remove the barriers that prevent employers from banding together to help their workers get the most out of their benefits.\u201d\n\nOverview of solutions:\n\nImprove workers\u2019 ability to control and afford their health care, and improve small business owners\u2019 ability to provide health insurance at a low cost and high value for employees\n\nPromote innovation and transparency to empower patients and to provide more affordable options\n\nLower costs and increase choices by fostering competition and targeting incentives that drive consolidation and limit competition\n\nClick HERE for a more detailed one pager.\n\nHouse Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy created the 17-member Healthy Future Task Force to develop solutions to modernize the American health care system to lower costs, keep Americans healthy, develop better therapies and cures, and provide Americans with more choices. The Affordability Subcommittee is one of five subcommittees part of the Healthy Future Task Force, which also includes the Treatment Subcommittee, Security Subcommittee, Modernization Subcommittee, and Doctor/Patient Relationship Subcommittee.\n\nClick HERE to view the Modernization Subcommittee solutions.\n\nClick HERE to view the Treatment Subcommittee solutions.\n\nClick HERE to view the Security Subcommittee solutions.\n\nClick HERE to view the Doctor-Patient Relationship solutions.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:49:02Z"]], "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://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases/spartz-affordability-subcommittee-releases-solutions-improve-health-care-value"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5990743413567543, "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"}