{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-and-wyden-report-legislative-text-from-finance-committee-health-care-markup", "Crapo and Wyden Report Legislative Text from Finance Committee Health Care Markup", "2023-12-07", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.--Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) today announced that the Committee has reported legislation that was marked up in the committee in November. The \u201cBetter Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act\u201d addresses a number of important health care priorities in the committee\u2019s jurisdiction.\n\n\u201cThis legislative text represents the bipartisan health care priorities unanimously voted out of the Finance Committee, such as improving mental health care, taking on drug price middlemen, and preventing needless cuts to health services that Americans count on,\u201d Wyden said. \u201cI am optimistic that these policies, in addition to the committee\u2019s prior bipartisan work on health care can reach the president\u2019s desk this Congress.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis bipartisan legislation will cut patient costs at the pharmacy counter, strengthen provider choice for seniors across the country and reverse warped incentives that currently favor higher-priced medications,\u201d said Crapo. \u201cIt accomplishes all of this without increasing the federal deficit. Taxpayers, consumers and community pharmacies deserve to see these bills passed by the full Congress as quickly as possible.\u201d\n\nThe legislation expands mental health care and substance use disorder services under Medicaid and Medicare, reduces prescription drug costs for seniors at the pharmacy counter, extends essential Medicaid and Medicare provisions that will expire this year, and increases Medicare payments to support physicians and other providers.\n\nLast month, the Finance Committee passed the proposal with a vote of 26-0.\n\nThe final reported legislative text can be found here. A section by section summary can be found here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "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.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-and-wyden-report-legislative-text-from-finance-committee-health-care-markup"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4601079747080803, "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"}