{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/-senate-passes-schatz-wicker-resolution-designating-telehealth-awareness-week", "Senate Passes Schatz-Wicker Resolution Designating Telehealth Awareness Week", "2024-09-24", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "HI", "Brian Schatz", "S001194", "www.schatz.senate.gov", "schatz", "https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan resolution authored by U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai\u2018i) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) designating September 15-21 as \u201cTelehealth Awareness Week.\u201d The resolution recognizes that telehealth has helped millions of Americans across the country access quality health care, and has become a critical component of health care delivery.\n\n\u201cTelehealth helps people access quality health care when and where they need it, and our resolution highlights the broad, bipartisan support for raising awareness of and expanding access to telehealth,\u201d said Senator Schatz, co-chair of the Senate Telehealth Working Group.\n\n\u201cTelehealth is a cost-effective way for people in rural and underserved areas to access health care. Increasing the services available to patients remains one of my top priorities,\u201d Senator Wicker said.\n\nThe resolution affirms the bipartisan support in Congress for telehealth and encourages expanded access to telehealth services for all people, including members of rural and underserved communities. It notes that 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth services at least once in 2023, and that nearly 90 percent were satisfied with their experience. It concludes that \u201cTelehealth Awareness Week\u201d unites the efforts of patients, caregivers, health care providers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to advance the role of telehealth in health care.\n\nThe resolution is cosponsored by U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.).\n\nSchatz has led efforts to expand access to telehealth, including reintroducing the CONNECT for Health Act, the most comprehensive bipartisan telehealth legislation in Congress. Since its first iteration in 2016, several provisions from the bill have been signed into law.\n\nThe full text of the resolution is available here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/-senate-passes-schatz-wicker-resolution-designating-telehealth-awareness-week"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5746853314340115, "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"}