Healthcare Innovation January 21, 2025
Pietje Kobus

Trump rescinds dozens of Biden era’s executive orders, including gender- and sex discrimination protections

President Trump started his second term on Monday by rescinding a long list of executive orders from former President Biden. This included reversing policies to lower healthcare costs, coronavirus outreach, Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansions, and safeguards against gender-based discrimination.

An order to test Medicare and Medicaid models that could lower healthcare costs, an extension of the Inflation Reduction Act is one of the regulations to be reversed.

Trump repealed an order that prompted the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to develop three drug pricing experiments. The first model was to help state Medicaid programs pay for cell and gene therapies. The second model...

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