{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=ab49eb7e-cac3-4258-bd1c-4c662d8ba04a", "Johnson: I am just talking about the truth of what promises were made", "2013-11-20", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Ron Johnson", "J000293", "www.ronjohnson.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Senator Ron Johnson questioned witnesses Wednesday at a Small Business Committee hearing held to examine the Obamacare rollout and its direct effect on small businesses.\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\r\nJOHNSON \u2013 I am just talking about the truth of what promises were made here \u2013 and we were promised that the health care law would actually decrease costs but all the added costs, all the added coverages, all the added mandates have increased costs, correct?\r\nHICKEY \u2013 Sir, if I could point out to you that 25% of the premium that you pay today goes to cover the uninsured and to cover the services they get from wherever they get it from. So, that, I think, is where the opportunity, once those people get covered \u2013 the insurance companies will have a major opportunity to lower the costs.\r\nJohnson commented afterward:\r\n\"We now know Obamacare is a death sentence to millions of health plans Americans like and can afford.\u00a0 Senator Landrieu's \u2018fix\u2019 only addresses individual insurance coverage and ignores the plight of millions of Americans destined to lose their employer-sponsored coverage or to see those costs skyrocket. Likewise, the president's recently announced political \u2018fix\u2019 attempts to redirect the blame and is merely a temporary stay of execution for a limited few.\u00a0 What Americans really need and deserve is full pardon from Obamacare. My bill, the \u2018If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep Your Health Plan Act,\u2019 is not temporary and is the first step in achieving that full pardon.\"\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=ab49eb7e-cac3-4258-bd1c-4c662d8ba04a"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0978137142956257, "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"}