Policy Backgrounders

What to Expect: The Biden Health Care Program

November 13, 2020

Likely, President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday (11.10.2020) laid out his case for expanding the Affordable Care Act, saying the coronavirus pandemic has made clear the urgent need to give more Americans access to health insurance. In the speech he promised that beginning on January 20th, that he is going to do “everything in our power to ease the burden of health care” by “building on the Affordable Care Act with a dramatic expansion of health coverage and bold steps to lower health care costs”. He also said that his transition team would start its work to flesh out the details “so that we can hit the ground running tackling costs, increasing access, and lowering the price of prescription drugs.