Americans voted for Joe Biden as president largely because of the importance of physical care to them. In the midst of a poorly controlled pandemic, Biden has a transparent set of priorities that Americans hope to find a way to achieve it. given confused when Democrats didn’t get a majority in the Senate. Even if they win the two seats in Georgia that will be in January, he would only have a margin to vote, making it difficult to adopt radical legislation.
However, if you do well, Biden can make great progress in bringing us to a healthier future. Its 10 most sensible priorities are:
COVID, COVID, COVID (science): As the president-elect said, nothing progresses until the crisis has returned to where it wanted, Biden will inherit the country just as the instances are over, with a Death Toll can be more than 300,000. COVID control will begin by following the example of scientists. Job One for Biden will strengthen awareness, accept as true and infrastructure for equitable vaccine distribution.
2. More COVID, COVID, COVID (better management): Biden will have to make it a precedent to use the bully chair that has necessarily been empty since the crisis began to convince Americans why they wear masks, socially distance themselves and meet the tests. He will have to specifically target rural Americans, who support Trump and resist any measure of public aptitude. It is very likely that COVID will continue for much of 2021 in its acute phase and you will want to remain the patient country and more united to minimize the damage. A public dashboard and measurement formula and closer cooperation with states to pass important tests and EPP will be a top priority.
3. Et more COVID, COVID, COVID (Congress): Congress will nevertheless have to pass a COVID and Biden relief bill will have to fight with Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to make sure that happens. , longer unemployment and relief for the states and small businesses they have to close, the pandemic will be harder for Americans and harder to control. State assistance deserves the expansion of Medicaid investment to be a top priority.
The consequences of COVID: the effect of delayed cancer and blood pressure screening, as well as intellectual fitness and substance abuse problems, require a rapprochement to address those desires that have been ignored for too long. create a nonpartisan commission that approves after all the classes we learned during the pandemic, which deserves to involve reinvesting and reforming our public fitness agencies and preparing, adding a permanent reaction apparatus that no long-term president can sweep, as Trump did. Innovations such as telemedicine and virtual care deserve to be extended at all times.
5. Cleaning Trump Alley: Through executive action, Trump has tilted the health care betting box to make it increasingly unfair and unequal, especially for marginalized communities. But what has been done through executive action can be almost completely undone in the same way. The public tariff rule discourages immigrants from their legal advantages. Medicaid paint needs discriminate against low-income people. Management has also acted to discriminate against transgfinisher Americans and weaken protections for Americans with disabilities. On the first day, Biden would have to finish everything, or begin the procedure to undo them.
Address racial disparities in physical fitness: The pandemic has given widespread public visibility into mortality rates and COVID cases that are far from equivalent in white communities compared to black, Latino, and Native American communities. Biden did not miss moments like these without addressing some of the obvious inequalities that cause black Americans to die at much higher rates, not only coVID, but also from center diseases, cancer, childbirth, and virtually every domain of the fitness care system. .
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7) Repairing trump’s damage to the Affordable Care Act: Millions of others have joined the role of the uninsured under Trump. If he controls Congress, Biden can oppose the trend by pushing for an expansion package like this is unlikely, however, it is imaginable to correct some of the sabotage that makes it difficult to register and make other people aware that it can be done. This deserves to start with an era of special registration to register others who have lost coverage.
8. Finally, deal with drug prices: Trump spent four years promising to control drug prices. Unfortunately, his rhetoric has led to no action unless the last-minute promise of a “reduction card” that would take cash from the Medicare Trust Fund, not the Pharmaceutical Industry Biden and its team have limited authority to directly control Medicare Part D drug prices as well as hospital prices. Given the number of Americans who say they can’t afford their prescriptions, it’s time to act.
9. Improving physical care accessibility: Due to Trump’s mismanagement, Biden inherits a Medicare program that is expected to be crushed in 2024 and will be able to avoid cutting benefits for the elderly by exerting pressure on the physical care formula to manage higher costs. . This includes strengthening incentive formulas within Medicare and Medicaid to avoid unnecessary income and eliminating some of the surplus benefits of the personal sector.
Build consensus for broader policy reforms: Biden should offer everyone in the country the opportunity to purchase a Medicare-style plan. While this is unlikely with this Congress, it may lay the groundwork through the approval of plans in states through the waiver. public hearings and drawing attention to public demand.
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One of the greatest vital and rapid differences Biden can make is the staff. More people who have been excluded from the fitness care formula want to be concerned about how it works. these formulas deserve to position one of the many other qualified people in the disability network with the duty of primary agencies. Inequalities in health care will be addressed more temporarily if more people from underrepresented teams hold positions of power. doctors, nurses and innovators, non-ideologologists, public relations specialists and pharmaceutical executives deserve to populate Biden’s fitness agencies.
There’s a lot to do. With a well-thought-out agenda, Biden can get immediate relief for Americans and the start of mandatory structural reforms. Even if you don’t have either chamber of Congress, it can still be effective. He deserves to use the Democratic-controlled regime. House to outline your principles, work with the Senate on what is imaginable, and use executive strength to correct mistakes you can and give others a better life. If Biden leads health care, the United States will go back by other means much faster.
Andy Slavitt is chairman of the Board of United States of Care, host of the In the Bubble Podcast and a member of today’s Taxpayer Board. A former physical care executive led the Affordable Care Act and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from 2015 to 2017. Follow him on Twitter: @ASlavitt
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