Defending and expanding Obamacare will be a top priority for President-elect Joe Biden, who’s sending a strong message he wants to bolster the law in picking California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for Health and Human Services secretary.
The hard-hitting attorney led the fight to save President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law in court. If it survives its current challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court, the defender-in-chief will run implementation of the Affordable Care Act, said Katie Keith, a health law professor at Georgetown University.
“If the goal is to put in charge the person who has led the fight against ...
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