Forbes January 20, 2021
Robert Laszewski

After four years of the Trump administration’s undermining of The Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, what can we expect over the next few months from the new administration?

On the regulatory side, not as much as you might expect.

During the campaign Biden talked about building on the law’s success in covering the people it has covered––primarily through the Medicaid expansion and for lower income people who get the best subsidies in the insurance market.

A big difference will be an administration promoting the law, particularly during the fall’s open enrollment, rather than decrying it as a complete failure

Democrats were harshly critical of the Trump administration’s regulations to end the insurance exchange cost sharing subsidies as well as opening the market...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Insurance, Medical Devices, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Pharma / Biotech, Provider, Public Exchange
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