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.
There’s no sign yet of a pause in the dramatic rally in natural gas prices across the central U.S., where spot rates have now breached the $1,000 mark, more than 100 times their level just a week earlier.