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in the latest blizzard of moves by the president to quickly reverse policy under Donald Trump, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Thursday reopening the nation's online health insurance marketplace for people who cannot obtain coverage through their employers, basically the best way to describe them to undo the damage Trump has done.
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There's nothing new that we're doing here other than restoring the Affordable Care Act and restoring the Medicaid to the way it waas before Trump became president.
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The order restores access to healthcare dot gov and will allow people to sign up for insurance through the government exchange from February 15th to May 15th, which is longer than the six weeks it had been in the past.
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We're done.
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Biden has vowed to shore up programs created under former President Barack Obama sweeping 2010 Affordable Care Act, arguing that the changes are urgent because of the health crisis.
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Republicans have long opposed the law, criticizing the cost and quality of care as well as extensive government involvement in health care markets.
