WASHINGTON – President Trump on Monday listed dozens of former President Biden’s top priorities, from regulations aimed at lowering health care costs to combating the coronavirus, expanding the Affordable Care Act and protecting against gender-based discrimination. He began his second term with a sweeping order aimed at overturning the
The “initial revocation” order, signed in front of a cheering crowd at Capital One Arena, rescinds dozens of Biden administration policies that the new White House has called inflammatory, inflationary and potentially illegal. It is to cancel the. They include: Orders for October 2022 Biden said testing Medicare and Medicaid models that could lower health care costs is an extension of his administration’s signature effort to negotiate drug prices under the Inflation Control Act.
President Trump is also rolling back the Biden administration’s efforts to expand access to COVID-19 drugs and vaccines, the creation of the 2021 Gender Policy Council, and multiple gender and gender discrimination protections. He ordered federal employees to return to their offices full time and froze federal hiring, with some exceptions.
Separately, President Trump ordered the United States to begin the process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization for mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.
President Trump’s broad proclamations, like other presidential executive orders, typically begin the regulatory and rulemaking process at federal agencies. The reversal could face legal challenges and parliamentary intervention. Several of Biden’s orders were tied to legislation passed by Congress.
Affordable Medical Care Act
President Trump rescinded a Biden executive order that would have extended the enrollment period for Affordable Care Act plans in most states and provided additional funding to third parties that help people enroll in ACA insurance. These measures allowed the Biden administration to nearly double the number of ACA enrollees to about 24 million people, an increase largely due to additional government subsidies that lowered the cost of ACA premiums. .
drug price setting
President Trump also rescinded an executive order that prompted the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to conduct three drug pricing experiments that have not yet fully taken off.
The first model was intended to help state Medicaid programs pay for highly effective but expensive cell and gene therapies. The idea was to create purchasing agreements between states so states wouldn’t have to pay for the drugs if they didn’t work.
CMMI has begun the process of enrolling states in the pilot program, and applications will be accepted until February 28th.
The second experiment is testing reducing Medicare payments for drugs that receive early approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Faster approvals allow promising medicines to be brought to patients sooner, before they are fully proven to actually work. In theory, lower payments would incentivize drug companies to finish research on drugs through confirmatory testing.
The final pilot project aims to encourage Medicare prescription drug plans to offer generic drugs for common chronic conditions at a flat $2 copay. The goal was to standardize out-of-pocket costs for generic drugs and encourage patients to continue taking their medications.
Abe Sutton, a former White House aide at the Department of Health and Human Services, is expected to be selected to run CMMI under the Trump administration.
COVID-19 (new coronavirus infection)
President Trump has reversed several of Biden’s policies aimed at tackling the coronavirus pandemic and preparing the country for future outbreaks. All of these were issued in 2021, at the height of the crisis, to ramp up research into testing and treatments for COVID-19, provide economic relief, and provide support for other countries in the event of a resurgence of the pandemic. The aim was to strengthen cooperation between the two countries.
gender and sexism
The president also focused on a number of health and education policies that specifically establish protections for LGBTQ and transgender people, as he promised during his campaign and in his inaugural address.
In his inaugural address, President Trump said, “From now on, it will be official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.”
The order rescinded Monday includes a 2022 policy that prohibits discrimination against people based on sexual or gender identity, mandates support for LGBTQ students, and promotes so-called conversion therapy at home and abroad. The authorities were instructed to cancel the program. President Trump similarly rescinded Biden’s order promoting gender and gender identity-based protections in schools.
President Trump also rescinded a 2021 Biden executive order to establish a Gender Policy Council, which was originally chaired by Jennifer Klein, an alumnus of the Obama and Clinton administrations.
