{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20141107193606/http://sinema.house.gov/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=3A5DBE81-B04B-4886-A735-9AD74091C640", "Sinema Urges House Leadership to Fix Medicare Physician Payment System", "2014-11-07", "2014", "2014-11", "Democrat", "House", "AZ", "Kyrsten Sinema", "S001191", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema sent a bipartisan letter urging House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to protect seniors by reforming the Medicare physician payment formula, also known as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), before the end of the year. (Please find the full letter text attached.)\n\u00a0\n\u201cMedicare physician payment reform is essential to protecting Arizona seniors and ensuring that Medicare remains strong and dependable,\u201d said Sinema. \u201cCongress should fix the broken Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, preventing substantial cuts to healthcare provider reimbursement rates that put seniors at risk of losing access to their doctors.\u201d\n\u00a0\nFor over a decade, Congress has relied on temporary fixes to avoid drastic cuts to the SGR formula. Reforming the formula will provide health care providers with certainty that they will be compensated for their services, ensuring seniors can keep their doctors.\n\u00a0\n###\nSustainable Growth Rate Letter", 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/20141107193606/http://sinema.house.gov/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=3A5DBE81-B04B-4886-A735-9AD74091C640"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8288701064884663, "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"}