{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2025/11/video-release-sen-johnson-holds-hearing-entitled-assessing-the-damage-done-by-obamacare", "***VIDEO RELEASE*** Sen. Johnson Holds Hearing Entitled \u201cAssessing the Damage Done by Obamacare\u201d", "2025-11-07", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "WI", "Ron Johnson", "J000293", "www.ronjohnson.senate.gov", "ronjohnson", "https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, held a hearing entitled \u201cAssessing the Damage Done by Obamacare.\u201d The Subcommittee heard from four witnesses who discussed Obamacare\u2019s failures to lower costs and meet coverage goals.\n\nThe first witness, Joel White, explained how Obamacare\u2019s expansion of the third-party payer system has fueled insurer consolidation, reduced competition, and driven up costs.\n\nThe second witness, Tarren Bragdon, described the damage done to Medicaid and to those whom Medicaid was originally designed to help.\n\nThe third witness, Brian Blase, PhD, explained how Obamacare\u2019s complex exchanges dismantled the individual market and drove premiums and deductibles sharply higher.\n\nThe minority witness, Shana Verstegen \u2013 a fellow Wisconsinite \u2013 is a victim of Obamacare\u2019s soaring premiums and perverse incentives causing employers to drop coverage and force their employees on to the unaffordable exchanges.\n\nClips of the witnesses\u2019 testimonies can be found here.\n\nRead Chairman Johnson\u2019s opening statement here.\n\nWatch the full hearing here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2025/11/video-release-sen-johnson-holds-hearing-entitled-assessing-the-damage-done-by-obamacare"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9397030808031559, "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"}