{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases/capito-statement-on-health-care-freedom-for-patients-act", "Capito Statement on Health Care Freedom for Patients Act", "2025-12-11", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "WV", "Shelley Moore Capito", "C001047", "www.capito.senate.gov", "capito", "https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) released the below statement after voting in favor of the Health Care Freedom for Patients Act, legislation that would lower health care costs and give money directly to families to control their own care. This bill is an alternative to Democrats\u2019 temporary COVID bonuses, which send billions of tax dollars to giant insurance companies without lowering insurance premiums.\n\n\u201cThe Health Care Freedom for Patients Act delivers a real, permanent alternative that lowers costs and puts patients first. While Democrats continue defending the same broken system, which they created and touted, our plan instead sends money directly to Americans, not insurance companies. I was proud to support this proposal because West Virginians deserve to make health care decisions that work best for themselves and their families,\u201d Senator Capito said.\n\nTHE HEALTH CARE FREEDOM FOR PATIENTS ACT:\n\nSends money to patients, not giant insurance companies;\n\nAmericans on affordable bronze and catastrophic plans would access these dollars in a Health Savings Account (HSA).\n\nThese funds cannot be used for abortion or dangerous gender transitions.\n\nLowers insurance premiums by 11% through funding cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments;\n\nEmpowers Americans to choose the insurance plan that fits their needs by increasing access to low-cost catastrophic plans;\n\nPrevents illegal immigrants from accessing Medicaid by requiring states to verify citizenship and immigration status before coverage; and\n\nStops taxpayer dollars from funding gender transition services under Medicaid and excludes them as an essential health benefit for plans sold on the Obamacare exchanges.\n\n# # #", 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://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases/capito-statement-on-health-care-freedom-for-patients-act"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3569090515375137, "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"}