Despite Donald Trump’s failure to repeal Obamacare, he’s forced changes on the health care system that Joe Biden will find hard to immediately reverse, if at all
. Those measures would be relatively easy to push through.
However, cutting off a Trump-backed alternative to Obamacare health plans may be more difficult. Trump two years ago issued, which are typically cheaper than Obamacare plans because they cover fewer benefits and typically don’t cover preexisting conditions. Republicans say the plans provide an affordable alternative to people priced out of Obamacare coverage, but Democrats contend they provide only the illusion of coverage and would undermine the Obamacare marketplaces.
Democrats may also look curtail short-term plans through legislation. A House-approved bill this summer included a provision striking down Trump’s expansion of short-term plans, but it went nowhere in the GOP-led Senate.Supreme Court case involving a GOP-backed challenge to Obamacare Meanwhile, Biden is resolved to extend coverage to millions of poor adults who have been shut out of Medicaid expansion in the dozen states that have refused the program. His public option plan would automatically provide zero-premium coverage to poor adults in those Medicaid expansion holdout states.
The case was the third time the coverage mandate came before the Supreme Court since 2014, and its liberal wing suggested that the matter hasn’t been entirely settled.
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