{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://simpson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=393182", "House Takes Action to Allow Americans to Keep Current Health Insurance Plans", "2014-09-11", "2014", "2014-09", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Mike Simpson", "S001148", "simpson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson today supported passage of H.R. 3522, the Employee Health Care Protection Act.\u00a0 This bill would allow employees to keep their work sponsored health plans by ensuring that existing group health plans can continue to be sold through 2019.\u00a0 It passed the House 247 to 167.\r\nLast year, millions of plans in the individual insurance market were cancelled due to Obamacare mandates.\u00a0 Now, as many as 50 million workers with full coverage could face cancellation or disruption because their work sponsored plans would not meet new minimal essential coverage requirements.\r\nH.R. 3522 ensures that group health plans that were offered in 2013 remain available and allows small businesses and their employees to purchase these plans regardless of whether they were on them in 2013.\u00a0 The Administration has provided limited relief for group plans that do not comply with Obamacare, but that relief only lasts through 2016. This bill would extend that opportunity to those not previously on such plans, and add three years of reprieve. \r\nThe bill expands on the \u201cKeep Your Health Plan Act of 2013,\u201d which applied to individual market plans, and allowed individuals to keep their plans. \u00a0That bill passed the House late last year. \r\n\u201cThe President repeatedly promised that if Americans liked their health plans, they could keep them,\u201d Said Congressman Simpson. \u201cWe now know that is not true.\u00a0This bill would allow the Administration to start making good on that promise and also allow for more affordable coverage options to remain available to more Americans.\u201d \r\nThe bill now moves to the Senate for consideration.", 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://simpson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=393182"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.471622847020626, "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"}