Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and Donald Trump did his best to repeal it. President Joe Biden is preparing for the third round of health reform with zero margin in Congress—even without the filibuster. How will Biden proceed administratively and legislatively to build on the ACA? Will advocates for the Public Option prevail and, if they fail, will they be pragmatic or stop any reform? How will health care providers and the larger health care industry respond? And, by the way, the Supreme Court will be deciding a lawsuit aimed at declaring the ACA unconstitutional—again. One of Washington’s shrewdest health policy observers, Len Nichols, joins us.
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