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With more than half of American adults now having received at least one shot, 300 million vaccine doses already distributed, and more than sufficient supply available going forward, impressive domestic progress is being made in curbing the COVID-19 pandem
Biden walks political tightrope in drug pricing dispute Mary Ellen McIntire and Lauren Clason © Provided by Roll Call President Joe Biden speaks with lawmakers as he exits the House chamber at the end of his address to the joint session of Congress on Wednesday. Congress will likely try to move forward with drug pricing legislation although President Joe Biden excluded such changes from his latest economic policy proposal. Biden called on Congress in his joint address Wednesday night to enact health care legislation this year that would expand Medicare and allow the massive...
Apr 28, 2021 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spent his first 100 days in office encouraging Americans to mask up and stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus. His task for the next 100 days will be to lay out the path back to normal. When he entered office, Biden moved swiftly to overcome problems with vaccine supply and more than tripled the country’s ability to administer them. But ending the coronavirus pandemic, the central challenge of his presidency, will require not only putting shots into arms — a task now growing more difficult as demand sags — but also a robust...
Biden Says He Wants to Go Big On Health Care. But He Left Major Reforms Out of His Latest Plan Time 4/29/2021 Abigail Abrams © Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Bloomberg—Getty Images U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. During President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress on Wednesday, he called for an ambitious health agenda that would allow the federal government to negotiate prescription drug prices, expand Medicare coverage, build on the Affordable Care Act and low...
The president’s first task was to get Americans to take the pandemic seriously — now he must encourage them to resume activities after being vaccinated.