{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/2025/10/in-case-you-missed-it-sen-rick-scott-in-the-wall-street-journal-democrats-keep-shoveling-money-at-obamacare", "IN CASE YOU MISSED IT\u2026 Sen. Rick Scott in the Wall Street Journal: Democrats Keep Shoveling Money at ObamaCare", "2025-10-09", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "FL", "Rick Scott", "S001217", "www.rickscott.senate.gov", "rickscott", "https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/press-releases/", "page_html", "It wasn\u2019t supposed to cost hundreds of billions of tax dollars a year to make healthcare \u2018affordable.\u2019\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on how Democrats\u2019 government shutdown demands of massive taxpayer-funded checks to insurance companies shows just how far they\u2019re willing to go to mask the true costs of Obamacare, which has completely failed, ruining the nation\u2019s health insurance system and leaving Americans paying more with less choice. Senator Scott notes it\u2019s time to fix this broken system \u2013 lowering costs, stopping fraud, and giving Americans more choice \u2013 to actually help Americans get accessible, affordable health care.\n\nIn the op-ed, Senator Rick Scott writes, \u201cCongressional Democrats have said the quiet part out loud: They want the federal government to keep cutting massive checks to insurance companies forever, using your tax dollars to shore up the sinking ship of ObamaCare. They\u2019ve even shut down the government to demand it.\n\n\u2018ObamaCare didn\u2019t deliver on its promise of healthcare affordability and stability. President Obama\u2019s promise that \u201cif you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it\u201d was proved to be a lie by 2013. His promise to bring down healthcare costs\u2014with savings of $2,500 a year for every American family and $200 billion for the federal government\u2014was no more truthful.\n\n\u2018To keep ObamaCare afloat, the federal government has propped it up with hundreds of billions of dollars in handouts directly to the insurance industry while failing to lower costs. These handouts lacked any accountability or eligibility requirements, opening them up to fraud, waste and mass confusion that lined the pockets of insurance companies and brokers, and failing Americans who need help. The whole system is misconceived\u2014but Washington has done its best to hide that from the American people.\u2026\u201d\n\nRead the full op-ed in the Wall Street Journal HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-03-30T11:08:25Z"]], "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.rickscott.senate.gov/2025/10/in-case-you-missed-it-sen-rick-scott-in-the-wall-street-journal-democrats-keep-shoveling-money-at-obamacare"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8367067202925682, "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"}