The President of the United States, Joe Biden, issued several regulations this Thursday measures to access health millions of uninsured Americans and remove barriers to funding groups that practice or advise abortion abroad.
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Speaking to the press at the White House, Biden announced that the purpose of his decrees is to “undo the damage” by his predecessor, Donald Trump. “I am not starting anything new, it is not about a new aspect of the law. This is to return to the previous situation” Trump administration, said Biden, serving as vice president of Barack Obama (2009-2017) helped design health policies that the former president later attempted to dismantle.
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Trump did everything he could to get the Obama health reform with the help of Republicans in Congress, who have voted more than 70 times since its approval in 2010 to annul it, using symbolic gestures that didn’t end the law, but weaken it.
To undo this damage, Biden’s first decision on Thursday was to make facilities so they can access to health insurance for those who lost it during the pandemic because they are unemployed and also for those who have never had insurance and want to buy it now.
I am not starting anything new, it is not about a new aspect of the law. This is to return to the previous situation
With the Biden measure, Americans have three months – between February 15 and May 15 – to purchase their insurance over the Internet HealthCare.gov, the federal government portal created under Obama’s reform that provides access to insurance at a lower cost than the normal market.
The White House declined to rate the number of possible beneficiaries; But according to data from the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, About 16 million people could be eligible to benefit from Biden’s measure.
In the US, where health is not a right, more than half of Americans have access to health care through their job, so those who can’t get insurance through their job run the risk of incurring huge debts to pay for their medical bills .
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Obama’s Health Reform, popularly known as “ObamacareHe tried to change the system to give Americans access to health without incurring debt and besides, insurers are prohibited from refusing their services or they will charge someone more for having some previous illness.
In connection with this matter, Biden asked the Health Department to review the restrictions that Trump was imposing on people with previous illnesses and ordered the Medicaid program, which guarantees the right to health of people with limited resources.
Women’s rights activists have a slogan to oppose laws banning abortion in several US states.
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Financing pro-abortion groups abroad
The US president signed a decree for a orders the Trump and re-allowing the use of government funding to subsidize groups practicing or advising on abortion abroad.
Whether or not to allocate money from the US government to pro-abortion groups abroad it has been a controversial issue in recent governments, giving them consent during democratic terms and bans during republicans.
This ban, known as “the politics of Mexico City,” because it was announced at a UN conference in that city in 1984, was 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) again embraced it, while Barack Obama (2009-2017) killed it again and Trump restored it.
Critics of the “politics of Mexico” claim it limitations have severely limited funding for humanitarian groups that provide family planning services and have resulted in women having to resort to unsafe and illegal abortions.
Defenders of the measure, meanwhile, deny that it caused an increase in illegal abortions abroad.
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