The Health 202: The FDA has until Thursday to respond to demands to ban menthol cigarettes Alexandra Ellerbeck
with Paige Winfield Cunningham It’s been a dozen years since Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate the contents of cigarettes. So far, the agency has never used it.
But that could change this week. The FDA has until Thursday to respond to a petition demanding a ban on menthol cigarettes. Past efforts to ban them have failed, but advocates say this time may be different and could even be the start of more aggressive tobacco regulation by the government.
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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.