Biden signs executive orders on healthcare
Another day, another suite of executive orders from Joe Biden. This time, specifically targeting Donald Trump’s actions on a couple of healthcare fronts.
One executive order directed the HealthCare.gov insurance markets to take new applications for subsidised benefits, something Donald Trump’s administration had refused to do. He also instructed his administration to consider reversing other Trump health care policies, including curbs on abortion counseling and the imposition of work requirements for low-income people getting Medicaid.
“There’s nothing new that we’re doing here other than restoring the Affordable Care Act and restoring Medicaid to the way it was before Trump became president,” Biden said as he signed the directives in the Oval Office.
He declared he was reversing “my predecessor’s attack on women’s health.”
The idea of reopening Obamacare’s health insurance markets in the pandemic has had broad support from consumer, medical, and business organisations. The main insurer trade group, America’s Health Insurance Plans, applauded Biden’s move.
A Supreme Court decision on Trump’s final challenge to the Obamacare law is expected to be handed down later this year.
– with AP
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