{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murray.senate.gov/on-first-day-of-open-enrollment-in-idaho-senator-murray-calls-on-republicans-to-come-to-the-table-to-prevent-health-care-costs-from-skyrocketing/", "On First Day of Open Enrollment in Idaho, Senator Murray Calls on Republicans to Come to the Table to Prevent Health Care Costs from Skyrocketing", "2025-10-15", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "WA", "Patty Murray", "M001111", "www.murray.senate.gov", "murray", "https://www.murray.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "KFF: Most Republicans and MAGA Supporters Say Congress Should Extend the Enhanced ACA Tax Credits Set to Expire Next Year\n\nTypical 60-year-old couple in Idaho making $85,000 will face a $17,900 spike in annual premiums\n\n***RSVP: Murray hosts call with Montanans who rely on ACA tax credits at 5 PM ET today as she takes case directly to red states over Republicans\u2019 refusal to prevent people\u2019s costs from skyrocketing***\n\n***WATCH: Senator Murray\u2019s Remarks***\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks on government funding at this afternoon\u2019s Senate Democratic leadership press conference on the fifteenth day of President Trump and Republicans\u2019 shutdown.\n\nSenator Murray\u2019s remarks, as delivered, are below:\n\n\u201cYou know, for weeks, I\u2019ve been hearing a lot of heart-breaking stories from folks back home in my home state of Washington: families who are absolutely panicking about their premiums that are doubling, the small business owners who are having to think about abandoning the job they love to get employer-sponsored health care elsewhere, or just forgoing coverage altogether.\n\n\u201cBut today, I actually want to talk about our neighbors: Idaho. Because today is the first day of open enrollment in Idaho. Which means today\u2014right now\u2014families are getting their first real look at the cost of Republicans\u2019 inaction on health care.\n\n\u201cRepublicans don\u2019t seem very eager to talk about that. But there is no running from the fact that these hikes are going to crush people.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s why last week, I actually held a call with people in Idaho who are watching their health care costs go through the roof. And here is what I heard.\n\n\u201cOne retiree, who\u2019s not old enough yet to be on Medicare, told me about how her premiums are going to jump by 173 percent. Almost triple.\n\n\u201cYou think that\u2019s bad? Another Idahoan I spoke with had learned that with tax credits, his premium will be $367 a month. Without tax credits? A whopping $2,232 a month.\n\n\u201cBut Bob and Susan are far from alone. There are more than 100,000 people in Idaho who rely on the ACA tax credits to help them afford their health care coverage.\n\n\u201cToday those families will log on to shop for a health plan, and feel their heart drop as they see these prices have skyrocketed. They are wondering if they can even afford health care now.\n\n\u201cIt is terrifying. And it\u2019s happening right now in Idaho. And it is coming to states across the country in two weeks. Several other states already have window shopping for these health plans.\n\n\u201cFolks in my state have already gotten notices about premiums doubling.\n\n\u201cAnd yet, all the while, Republican leaders are trying to stick their heads in the sand and trying to pretend that everything is fine.\n\n\u201cOn one hand, we have many Republicans saying, \u2018what\u2019s the rush? We can talk about maybe doing something on health care later.\u2019 Never mind the fact they refused to talk about this earlier, even as they rushed to jam through tax breaks for billionaires a few months ago.\n\n\u201cAnd on the other hand, we have some Republicans basically saying they don\u2019t want to do anything. In fact, some Republicans still wish they could repeal the Affordable Care Act.\n\n\u201cHow detached from reality can Republicans get?\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s bad enough so many of them can see the iceberg coming, and are saying, \u2018eh, we\u2019ll worry about that after the ship goes down.\u2019 But we\u2019ve also got Republicans saying, \u2018bet, you wish this ship had sunk earlier?\u2019 Some Republicans are all but cheering for higher premiums.\n\n\u201cRepublicans may have chosen to shut down the government rather than address health care, but Idaho just opened up enrollment, and the rest of the nation is around the bend.\n\n\u201cPresident Trump and Republican Leadership may try to bury their heads in the sand, but they are not going to be able to bury the headline here: health care premiums are doubling, tripling, and even in some places, quadrupling.\n\n\u201cFamilies don\u2019t have the luxury of ignoring health care.\n\n\u201cBut instead of putting a single penny forward to help people afford health care, Donald Trump is giving twenty billion dollars, taxpayer money, to Argentina in a bailout?\n\n\u201cWhat happened to America First?\n\n\u201cSo the bottom line hasn\u2019t changed: when Republicans are ready to get serious, Democrats will be at the negotiating table\u2014where we have been for weeks\u2014ready to reach a bipartisan deal that opens up the government, and addresses this health care crisis.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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.murray.senate.gov/on-first-day-of-open-enrollment-in-idaho-senator-murray-calls-on-republicans-to-come-to-the-table-to-prevent-health-care-costs-from-skyrocketing/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8223468214273453, "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"}