{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.isakson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=ac3692d7-567c-4dff-aa45-32d6a32f0288", "Isakson: Obamacare's \"Promise of Lower Cost Health Care and Better Benefits was Exactly Wrong\"", "2015-12-03", "2015", "2015-12", "Republican", "House", "GA", "Johnny Isakson", "I000055", "www.isakson.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON  U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., called on the Senate to pass the Restoring Americans' Health Care Freedom Reconciliation Act, which would repeal the presidents disastrous health care law known informally as Obamacare. During remarks on the Senate floor, Isakson highlighted the plight of Georgia families facing higher premiums, higher deductibles and reduced health care coverage because of Obamacare.\r\nIsaksons remarks are included below and video is available online here.\r\nSix years ago, the administration was promising lower premiums, better benefits and that Obamacare was going to be a solution for the problems of American families. I have gotten letters from people who are having higher premiums, bigger deductibles and less benefits.\r\nLet me give you an example: A family in Roswell, Georgia, wrote me, a family of five. They were notified their premium is going from $849 a month to $1,075 a month, with a deductible of $11,900, and an increase of $6,900 in their deductible. The mother, who had a family history of breast cancer, was denied coverage for her regular mammograms, and the young daughter, who had a precancerous mole removed, was refused reimbursement for that removal. This family experienced increase in premium, reduction in benefits and an increase in deductible. It just doesn't make any sense, but it's all because of the mandates of the Obamacare law.\r\nSecondly, I had a young couple in Smyrna, Georgia, who wanted to plan for their retirement, start saving in their early years of productivity. They recently received notice from their insurance company their premium is going from $670 a month to $1,379 a month, over a 100 percent increase. Where is that money coming from? They are having to reduce their savings for retirement just to pay the Obamacare premium and get less of a benefit because their deductible is going from $2,000 to $4,000.\r\nThe promise of lower cost health care and better benefits was exactly wrong. What the American people were promised was wrong.\r\nI'm proud that Senator Enzi, Senator Alexander and others have led this reconciliation vote to repeal Obamacare. It's time the American people got the truth -- better coverage, but lower cost -- the good old-fashioned way with a private competitive system.\r\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://www.isakson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=ac3692d7-567c-4dff-aa45-32d6a32f0288"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.275814138352871, "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"}