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President-elect Joe Biden s chances of making waves in healthcare policy got a major boost Wednesday when Democrats by the thinnest of margins flipped control of the Senate.
That outcome, along with the Democrats slim majority in the House, gives the party the coveted Washington trifecta that provides a much greater chance of controlling the legislative agenda and passing favored legislation at least if it can be done with 50 votes.
With both Democratic candidates for Senate in Georgia winning their runoff elections Tuesday, the party wrested control of the chamber from Republicans.
Both margins are razor-thin, however. Also, the more progressive members in the House could try to hold out for bigger changes than Biden s relatively moderate platform lays out.
The incoming Biden-Harris administration has an opportunity to immediately revoke implementation of the public charge rule, easing anxiety for millions of immigrants who have denied themselves federal benefits over the past three years for fear of losing their ability to upgrade their immigration status.
“Public charge will be a front-burner issue for the new administration because it is so entwined with our current public health crisis and connected to the pandemic,” said Daniel Sharp, chief of the Office of Immigrant Affairs in Los Angeles County’s Department of Consumer and Business Affairs. “We do expect the new administration to prioritize the issue,” he said in an interview with EMS, noting that President-elect Joe Biden had committed to ending the rule while campaigning for office.
Toplines A key provision of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act is the continuous enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries throughout the public health emergency, regardless of changes that might otherwise affect eligibility Federal guidance on the winding-down process for when the emergency ends increases the risk of erroneous disenrollment and delays in enrolling newly eligible people; millions of current and future beneficiaries could be vulnerable
Toplines A key provision of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act is the continuous enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries throughout the public health emergency, regardless of changes that might otherwise affect eligibility Federal guidance on the winding-down process for when the emergency ends increases the risk of erroneous disenrollment and delays in enrolling newly eligible people; millions of current and future beneficiaries could be vulnerable
The incoming Biden-Harris administration has an opportunity to immediately revoke implementation of the public charge rule, easing anxiety for millions of immigrants who have denied themselves federal benefits over the past three years for fear of losing their ability to upgrade their immigration status.
âPublic charge will be a front-burner issue for the new administration because it is so entwined with our current public health crisis and connected to the pandemic,â said Daniel Sharp, chief of the Office of Immigrant Affairs in Los Angeles Countyâs Department of Consumer and Business Affairs. âWe do expect the new administration to prioritize the issue,â he said in an interview with EMS, noting that President-elect Joe Biden had committed to ending the rule while campaigning for office.