{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-lujan-on-ms-now-extending-aca-tax-credits-is-the-best-way-to-prevent-a-major-price-hike-to-millions-of-americans/", "VIDEO: Luj\u00e1n on MS NOW \u2014 Extending ACA Tax Credits is the Best Way to Prevent a Major Price Hike to Millions of Americans", "2025-12-11", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "NM", "Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n", "L000570", "www.lujan.senate.gov", "lujan", "https://www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/?jsf=jet-engine:press-list", "scraper", "Watch Senator Luj\u00e1n\u2019s full interview HERE.\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Just days before Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits are set to expire, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.) joined MS NOW\u2019s Chris Jansing to discuss Democrats\u2019 plan to avoid skyrocketing health care premiums for hardworking American families and Republicans\u2019 refusal to prevent this crisis.\n\nSenator Luj\u00e1n stressed the impact of the Republican-made health care crisis on hard-working New Mexican families:\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve been receiving phone calls and messages from seniors across New Mexico who are even looking at what\u2019s happening to their Medicare plans. They\u2019re worried.\n\n\u201cA single mom from New Mexico yesterday messaged me. She said, \u2018Hey, if you need to know what\u2019s going on, I just got my notice. And for me and my daughter, it\u2019s going from $900 to $1300.\u2019\n\nSenator Luj\u00e1n underscored the fact that Americans are feeling the pain of this affordability crisis and need to be able to afford their health care:\n\n\u201cThe American people are paying way too much with health insurance companies. I say we should hold health insurance companies accountable. This notion that doctors can\u2019t make decisions about how to treat a patient because they need some bean counter somewhere that works for an insurance company to see if you should or shouldn\u2019t get it\u2014I trust my doctor. I don\u2019t trust that insurance company. So, I\u2019m all about reform and working on this as well.\u201d\n\nSenator Luj\u00e1n highlighted Republicans\u2019 long history of not having a health care plan to bring to the table:\n\n\u201cBut don\u2019t forget, Chris, Republicans have voted over 70 times to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. They don\u2019t like it. They don\u2019t want it in place. Well, over the last ten years, where is their plan? Let\u2019s come up with something here. Stop playing games with the American people.\n\n\u201cAnd the last thing that I would say to Leader Thune if he was talking to me, Chris \u2014 he knows I survived a stroke three years ago. He knows that I was in an ICU bed. I didn\u2019t know if I was going to live one day to the next. But what I\u2019ve been reminded day in and day out is when you\u2019re in those situations, the only thing you should be worried about when you\u2019re in a bed like that is about getting better. Not worried about paying the bills.\u201d\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.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-lujan-on-ms-now-extending-aca-tax-credits-is-the-best-way-to-prevent-a-major-price-hike-to-millions-of-americans/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9713680483400822, "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"}