{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://paulsen.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=22&itemid=1901", "Paulsen Hosts Roundtable to Improve Health Care for Seniors", "2017-08-16", "2017", "2017-08", "Republican", "House", "MN", "Erik Paulsen", "P000594", "paulsen.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Paulsen (MN-03) hosted a Health Care Providers Roundtable in Eden Prairie on Tuesday as part of an effort to eliminate red-tape bureaucracy in Medicare that stands in the way of delivering better care for seniors. Minnesota doctors, nurses, clinicians, and other health care professionals\u2014including Care Providers of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic, Zipnosis, Novu Health, Life Science Alley, and others\u2014all identified burdensome rules that are increasing the cost of Medicare.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\t\u201cMinnesota health professionals came together to identify key areas bureaucratic rules and mandates that should be eliminated because they\u2019re driving up costs for seniors,\u201d said Congressman Paulsen. \u201cWe can find bipartisan solutions to make Medicare simpler and more efficient for beneficiaries, and conversations with these stakeholders is an important part of that process.\u201d\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\tCongressman Paulsen, a champion of small business and advocate of free enterprise, entrepreneurship, and innovation, serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, the bicameral Joint Economic Committee, and is co-chair of the Congressional Medical Technology Caucus.\r\n\t\r\n\t\tFor more information on Congressman Paulsen\u2019s work in Congress visit\u00a0paulsen.house.gov.\u00a0\r\n\t\r\n\t\t\u00a0\r\n\t\r\n\t\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://paulsen.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=22&itemid=1901"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0233379434794188, "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"}