{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2000-12-15-pt1-PgE2190-2", "2000-12-15", 106, 2, null, null, "TAX CREDITS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM WON'T WORK! CHECK OUT THE FACTS ON EHEALTHINSURANCE.COM", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "ALLOTHER", "E2190", "E2190", "[{\"name\": \"Fortney Pete Stark\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "146 Cong. Rec. E2190", "Congressional Record, Volume 146 Issue 155 (Friday, December 15, 2000)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 155 (Friday, December 15, 2000)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E2190]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n TAX CREDITS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM WON'T WORK! CHECK OUT THE\n                     FACTS ON EHEALTHINSURANCE.COM\n\n                                 ______\n\n                        HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK\n\n                             of california\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Friday, December 15, 2000\n\n  Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, books, toys, flowers, clothes and insurance?\nNow you can shop for just about anything on the web, including\ninsurance. I recently window-shopped for insurance using\nehealthinsurance.com; the same program Republican health care staffers\nreceived a briefing on last week.\n  My window-shopping included looking at available health insurance\noptions in Florida, Montana, Louisiana and Georgia through the eyes of\npeople who were 25, 35, 45, 55 and 60, both married and single.\n  The data reiterated our findings from March, which proved that in\norder to help the uninsured we cannot simply give them refundable tax\ncredits; the tax credits have to be coupled with major insurance\nreform.\n  Many people who are uninsured are working poor and may not qualify\nfor Medicaid; therefore if the tax credit does not cover almost the\nentire cost of insurance they will still not be able to afford it.\n  The results also proved that with age, tax credit becomes even more\nuseless because health insurance prices rapidly increase as one ages.\nFor example, a 25 year old low income couple in Billings, Montana could\ninitially get by with a $316.00 credit per month, but by the time the\ncouple reached age 60 they would need $1,032.00 per month to sustain\nthe same plan from the same insurance company.\n  Shopping on the web is like shopping at wholesale; it allows us to\nbuy books, clothes and the like at prices that most people can afford.\nThe same thing cannot be said about insurance: without insurance market\nreform, health insurance will remain unaffordable for tens of millions.\n  To view charts relating to this issue, please visit my website at\nwww.house.gov_stark.\n\n ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2000-12-15-pt1-PgE2190-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 23.345207097008824, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}