Doing things to help people. This is what progressive governance looks like:
The orders will be Biden’s first steps since taking office to help Americans gain health insurance, a prominent campaign goal that has assumed escalating significance as the pandemic has dramatized the need for affordable health care — and deprived millions of Americans coverage as they have lost jobs in the economic fallout.
Under one order, HealthCare.gov, the online insurance marketplace for Americans who cannot get affordable coverage through their jobs, will swiftly reopen for at least a few months, according to several individuals inside and outside the administration familiar with the plans. Ordinarily, signing up for such coverage is tightly restricted outside a six-week period late each year.
How many people might this affect?
Nearly 15 million Americans lost employer-based health insurance. Here’s how to get health coverage again
Elisabeth Buchwald/ Market Watch
Nov. 3, 2020
Some 7.7 million Americans who were laid off during the pandemic lost their employer-sponsored health coverage as of June.
Those plans covered some 6.9 million of their dependents, impacting up to 14.6 million individuals, according to an October report published by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports health-care issues.
Just a reminder why we need universal health coverage mandated and provided by the federal government: