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The Health 202: Trump tried to shrink Medicaid. Here s how Biden will try to expand it. Alexandra Ellerbeck
with Paige Winfield Cunningham But now the Biden administration is trying to pull it in a different direction.
President Trump pushed states to weed out ineligible enrollees and greenlit work requirements in exchange for benefits. But President Biden – and, if confirmed, his nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Chiquita Brooks-LaSure are expected to push to get more people on the Medicaid rolls. Medicaid provides coverage to around 72 million Americans about 22 percent of the population and those numbers have risen during the coronavirus pandemic. The program is central to Biden’s promise to get more people insurance by building on Obamacare and existing programs.
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Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday,
562,066; Tuesday, 562,533; Wednesday, 563,446.
The U.S. vaccination effort against COVID-19 was dealt a major blow on Tuesday as regulators paused the administration of
Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) shot to investigate rare blood clots reported in individuals who have received the company’s vaccine.
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President Biden on Tuesday bumped up the timeline by two weeks to April 19 for all adults to be eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The White House celebrated 150 million doses of vaccine administered since Jan. 20 in a “life-or-death race” to protect Americans.
The president’s latest declaration, which he made during a visit to a vaccine site in Alexandria, Va., accompanies an ambitious national mass vaccination program. The latest totals put Biden on course to reach his goal of 200 million doses administered in his first 100 days.
At least a dozen states opened eligibility to anyone 16 and older on Monday alone, while New Jersey and Oregon announced this week that all residents 16 and older will become eligible on April 19.
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