{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20140307001356/http://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=22029e4a-b585-4de4-8b1b-93c095bc73dd", "Alexander, Barrasso Comment on White House Announcement that Americans Unable to Replace Canceled Health Plans May Purchase Catastrophic Coverage", "2013-12-20", "2013", "2013-12", "Republican", "House", "TN", "Lamar Alexander", "A000360", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "December 20 2013  - \nSenators point out that Obama rejected the Republican idea of catastrophic coverage at the 2010 White House health care summit\u00a0\nWASHINGTON, Dec. 20 \u2013 The senior Republican on the Senate health committee and the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee released the following statements in response to the Obama administration\u2019s announcement that it would allow Americans unable to replace their canceled health care plans to instead purchase \u201ccatastrophic\u201d coverage:\nU.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), said: \u201cRepublicans have suggested that to provide health coverage for more Americans, everyone should have the opportunity to buy affordable catastrophic insurance as part of a private-sector plan to create more competition, offer more choices, and lower costs. This is a completely different approach and would have been a better path than Obamacare. It was suggested by Republicans \u2013 and ridiculed by the president \u2013 at the 2010 White House health-care summit.\u201d\nU.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said: \u00a0\u201cIt is time to eliminate the individual mandate for all Americans. We have clear proof now that the President\u2019s health care law is hurting more people than it is helping.\u00a0We know that more fake \u2018fixes\u2019 won\u2019t solve the problem \u2013 they just continue to add to Americans\u2019 confusion, anxiety and anger about this law. And after blatantly deriding the value of catastrophic plans in 2010, it\u2019s ironic that the President is now embracing them. The White House\u2019s latest backtrack is more proof that President Obama ignored good Republican ideas and pushed through a law full of bad ideas that would never work.\u00a0 President Obama has changed his health care law so many times that it is now completely unrecognizable \u2013 and fatally flawed.\u201d\nAlexander and Barrasso, along with Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), on Wednesday introduced legislation that would reverse the Obama administration\u2019s recent decision to delay next year\u2019s Obamacare insurance enrollment deadline until after the 2014 election. \u201cThe Premium Disclosure Act\u201d would also require the administration to provide premium increase and cost-sharing information to Americans prior to open enrollment so they have time to make decisions about their health care.\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://web.archive.org/web/20140307001356/http://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=22029e4a-b585-4de4-8b1b-93c095bc73dd"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.6446881238371134, "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"}