{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshalls-patients-deserve-price-tags-act-passes-senate-help-committee/", "Senator Marshall\u2019s Patients Deserve Price Tags Act Passes Senate HELP Committee", "2026-07-22", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "KS", "Roger Marshall", "M001198", "www.marshall.senate.gov", "marshall", "https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) released the following statement after his and Senator John Hickenlooper\u2019s (D-Colorado) bipartisan Patients Deserve Price Tags Actpassed the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) with overwhelming bipartisan support, marking a major milestone toward lowering healthcare costs for American families.\n\nThe legislation requires hospitals and insurers to publicly disclose healthcare prices, giving patients the ability to compare costs before receiving care. By increasing transparency and competition, the bill will help lower healthcare costs, empower patients, and put consumers back in control of their healthcare decisions.\n\n\u201cPatients deserve price tags, not surprise bills. This is the only bipartisan healthcare reform before Congress today that can begin lowering the cost of living immediately by bringing real competition to our healthcare system,\u201d said Senator Marshall. \u201cAmericans have waited far too long to know what their care will cost before they receive it, and I\u2019m proud this commonsense legislation passed out of the HELP Committee today with overwhelming bipartisan support. It\u2019s time to put patients back in charge \u2013 not the big hospital systems and insurance companies.\u201d\n\nSenator Marshall thanked his bipartisan partner, Senator John Hickenlooper (D-Colorado), for his leadership in introducing the legislation and expressed his appreciation to HELP Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-Louisiana), Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), and members of the committee for advancing the bill. Senator Marshall looks forward to working with his colleagues to build on this momentum and bring the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act to the Senate floor.\n\n\u201cRight now, Americans walk into a hospital blind and walk out with a bill nobody could have predicted. That\u2019s not a health care system \u2014 it\u2019s a gamble,\u201d said Senator Hickenlooper. \u201cOur bill makes hospitals and insurers publish their prices and backs it up with real fines, not empty threats. If we\u2019re serious about getting universal coverage and lowering costs, we start by following the money.\u201d\n\nClick HERE or on the image above for Senator Marshall\u2019s full remarks.\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-23T07:31:02Z", "2026-07-23T07:32:26Z"]], "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.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshalls-patients-deserve-price-tags-act-passes-senate-help-committee/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1985769961029291, "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"}