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Biden turns to Obama to help boost health care enrollment
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President Joe Biden speaks on his phone after arriving on the Ellipse near the White House, Friday, June 4, 2021, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)
WASHINGTON President Joe Biden turned to his old boss, former President Barack Obama, on Saturday to help him encourage Americans to sign up for Obamacare health care coverage during an expanded special enrollment period in the pandemic.
Biden used his weekly address for a brief Zoom chat with Obama to draw attention to the six-month expanded enrollment period that closes Aug. 15. Meanwhile the government released a report that claims that nearly 31 million Americans a record now have health coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
The White House effort to spotlight the expanded enrollment period and claim strong numbers for the health law as the political world and the health care system await a Supreme Court ruling on the law’s constitutionality.