President Biden is opening up Obamacare enrollment and planning an ad blitz.

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Eight days into his administration, President Joe Biden took a small step to expand health coverage during the Covid-19 pandemic — one that Donald Trump refused to take last year.

In an executive order Biden is signing Thursday, the president directs the US Department of Health and Human Services to open a special enrollment period on HealthCare.gov, allowing Americans to sign up for a new health insurance plan subsidized by the federal government. From February 15 to May 15, people who are uninsured can log on to the federal website and choose a health plan. (HealthCare.gov serves most states but not all; Biden officials said they expected the states that run their own insurance marketplaces to also open up enrollment.)


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/1/28/22254075/joe-biden-executive-orders-health-care-obamacare-enrollment?

[cwydro]

1. Excellent!

You go Joe!

[trackfan]

2. This is how it's done.

Here in CA, there are 2.7 million without insurance. I strongly recommend signing up, if you don't have it. My income estimates keep changing due to job instability during Covid, but last year, for several months, my premium was $2.00. This works, if you let it.

[Hortensis]

3. Go, Democrats! We're going to snow the nation with sensible and decent government.

Interestingly, many of the things we did for Americans under Obama were not understood to be done by us -- like tax cuts. Who really knew and felt they had a tax cut under Democrats? That's for Republicans! This time we reportedly are trying to present what we do in ways that people won't miss.

Another chance for people in trouble to sign up for likely-subsidized national health insurance in the middle of the pandemic strikes me as simple enough for many to understand.

[FakeNoose]

4. THIS is what everyone needs as soon as possible

This is how we get them back!

[betsuni]

5. K&R