U.S. President Joe Biden decreed several on Thursday measures to help access health to millions of Americans without health insurance and removing barriers to funding for groups that practice or advise on abortion abroad.
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In statements to the White House press, Biden announced that the goal of his decrees is to “undo the harm he did” to his predecessor, Donald Trump. “I’m not starting anything new, this is not a new aspect of the law. This serves to return to the previous situation” in the Trump administration, Said Biden, who as vice president of barack Obama (2009-2017) helped design health policies which he later attempted to dismantle the former president.
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Trump did his best to abolish the Obama’s health care reform with the help of Congress Republicans, who since its passage in 2010 voted more than 70 times to repeal it, in symbolic gestures that failed to end the law, but did weaken it.
To reverse this damage, the first decision Biden made this Thursday was to put facilities so that they can access to health insurance those who lost it during the pandemic for having lost their job and also those who have never had insurance and now want to acquire it.
I’m not starting anything new, it’s not about any new aspect of the law. This serves to return to the previous situation
With the Biden measure, Americans will have three months – between February 15 and May 15 – to buy their insurance online HealthCare.gov, the federal government portal created under the auspices of Obama’s reform and which allows access to insurance at a lower cost than in the normal market.
The White House refused to give a figure on the number of potential beneficiaries; however, according to data from the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, about 16 million people could meet the requirements to take advantage of the Biden measure.
In the US U.S., where health is not a right, more than half of Americans access health care through their employment, so those who can’t get insurance through their jobs, run the risk of incurring huge debts to pay for your medical expenses.
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Obama’s health care reform, popularly known as “Obamacare“He tried to change the system to allow Americans access to health care without having to go into debt, and in addition, prohibit insurers from denying their services or cover someone more for having some kind of previous illness.
On this issue, Biden asked the Department of Health to review the restrictions Trump imposed on those with previous illnesses and ordered to strengthen the Medicaid program, Which guarantees the right to health of people with low resources.
Women’s rights activists hold a slogan to oppose laws banning abortion in several U.S. states.
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Funding for pro-abortion groups abroad
The US president signed a decree to reverse one orders Trump and re-allow the use of government funds to subsidize groups that practice or advise on abortion abroad.
The granting or not of US government funding to pro-abortion groups abroad it has been a contentious issue in recent administrations, which have authorized them during Democratic terms and banned them during Republicans.
This ban, known as “the politics of Mexico City” because it was announced at a UN conference held in that city in 1984, represented one of the cornerstones of Ronald Reagan’s social policy (1981). -1989).
Bill Clinton abolished it during his tenure (1993-2001) and George W. Bush (2001-2009) embraced it again, while Barack Obama (2009-2017) ended it again and Trump restored it. .
Critics of “Mexico politics” claim that restrictions have greatly limited funding for humanitarian groups which offer family planning services and have caused women to have to resort to illegal and unsafe abortions.
Proponents of the measure, meanwhile, deny that it has caused an increase in illegal abortions abroad.
EFE
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