{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/the-budget-deal-made-a-change-thats-good-for-medicaid_and-bad-for-martin-shkreli", "The budget deal made a change that's good for Medicaid  and bad for Martin Shkreli", "2015-11-02", "2015", "2015-11", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "The budget deal made a change that's good for Medicaid  and bad for Martin Shkreli\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t By: Dan Diamond \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tMonday, November 2, 2015\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tYou may hate Martin Shkreli, the greedy drug company executive who hiked the price of Daraprim more than 5,000 percent last month. But you should love how Shkrelisparked a national debateover price-gouging that's finally led to legislative action.\r\nUnder this week's budget deal, which has passed Congress and President Obama is expected to sign Monday, a Medicaid drug rebate requirement would be expanded to generic drugs. What this means: Companies that produce generic drugs must pay back the government if the price of their drugs grows faster than inflation.\r\nIt's good for the government  the Congressional Budget Office estimates the change would save Medicaid about $1 billion over ten years. And even if a Medicaid drug rebate doesn't directly benefit most patients, it \"could still serve as a valuable tool for state budgets and taxpayers, particularly as Medicaid covers more and more people with the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion and as more states choose to expand Medicaid,\" the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budgetwrote.\r\nDemocratic lawmakers had been trying to make this exact change for years, but before Shkreli's antics, they didn't have any momentum to do it. In May, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Elijah Cummingsre-introduced legislationto expand Medicaid's drug rebate. It went nowhere until now.\r\n\r\nContinue reading here.", 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.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/the-budget-deal-made-a-change-thats-good-for-medicaid_and-bad-for-martin-shkreli"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3673361390829086, "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"}