{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://doyle.house.gov/press-release/house-votes-undermine-health-care-reforms-prohibit-discrimination-insurance-companies", "House Votes to Undermine Health Care Reforms that Prohibit Discrimination by Insurance Companies", "2013-11-15", "2013", "2013-11", "Democrat", "House", "PA", "Mike Doyle", "D000482", "doyle.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, DC \u2013 U.S. Representative Mike Doyle (PA-14) voted today against legislation that would roll back many of the patient protection provisions signed into law in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Congressman Doyle worked hard to enact this law to protect consumers from widely used insurance industry abuses.  \n\t\u00a0  \u201cWe came up with a private system that allowed everybody to participate\u2014young and old, rich and poor, healthy and sick,\u201d Congressman Doyle said today on the House Floor. \u201cWhen you put everybody in that risk pool, healthy people help us enable the insurance industry to keep rates at an affordable way for those people who have pre-existing conditions and who have chronic diseases. That\u2019s how the system works.\u00a0 What my colleague, Mr. Upton is proposing today unravels that system.\u201d  \n\t\u00a0  \n\tToday the House considered H.R. 3350, the \u201cKeep Your Health Plan Act\u201d \u2013 legislation that would allow insurance companies to continue to sell insurance policies that provided minimal benefits, capped annual or lifetime benefits, and discriminated against people for a number of reasons, including pre-existing conditions and even gender.  \n\t\u00a0  \n\tCongressman Doyle voted against H.R. 3350, and he voted in favor of a motion to recommit that would have allowed insurance companies to renew \u201cgrandfathered\u201d health insurance policies (existing policies that don\u2019t necessarily meet ACA standards) for an additional year for current policy-holders \u2013 but wouldn\u2019t allow them to sell such policies to new customers.  \n\t\u00a0  \n\tThe motion to recommit was defeated on a vote of 187 to 230, and H.R. 3350 was approved on a vote of 261 to 157.  \n\t\u00a0  \n\tClick here to see Congressman Doyle\u2019s Floor speech explaining why the consumer protection provisions in the Affordable Care Act were enacted in the first place.  \n\t\u00a0\n  \n\t###", 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": ["http://doyle.house.gov/press-release/house-votes-undermine-health-care-reforms-prohibit-discrimination-insurance-companies"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8360650390386581, "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"}