{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://sablan.house.gov/press-release/affordable-care-act-funds-chcc-hit-42-m-67-million-still-available", "Affordable Care Act funds to CHCC hit $42 m., $67 million still available", "2014-10-31", "2014", "2014-10", "Independent", "Senate", "MP", "Gregorio Sablan", "S001177", "sablan.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Affordable Care Act funds to CHCC hit $42 m., $67 million still available                                           \n              Oct 31, 2014      \t\t        \t    \n      \t            \n                    \n                                            \n          \n        \n        \n            \n    \n  \n    \n    \n    New Medicaid funding from the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, drawn down by the Commonwealth reached $41,982,993 as of this week. The ACA provided $109 million in new Medicaid money to the Northern Marianas. So we still have another $67 million available between now and the end of 2019. The money pays for the medical care of some 15,000 lower-income Northern Mariana Islanders. This Affordable Care Act money is in addition to the regular Medicaid funding of $15 million and Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program funding of $3 million we have received over the last three years. Without these federal funds \u2013 $60 million in all \u2013 it would have been very difficult to keep our hospital open after the CNMI government stopped underwriting the costs of CHC.", 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://sablan.house.gov/press-release/affordable-care-act-funds-chcc-hit-42-m-67-million-still-available"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.0901989191770554, "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"}