Washington-Vice President Kamala Harris said on Tuesday that it “feels good” to have Barack Obama in the White House before the 44th President makes fun of President Biden as “Vice President Biden.”
The popular 60-year-old former president was welcomed by a rock star in the White House East Room to celebrate Obamacare’s 12th anniversary.
“It feels good, right?” Harris laughed when he first appeared publicly at the White House since Obama resigned in 2017.
Obama laughed when he stepped into the podium, admitted “Vice President Biden,” and then added, “It was a joke.”
Biden didn’t think he had appeared and tried to keep his own political wagon to his ex-boss during an unusually hilarious event where few people wore anti-COVID-19 face masks. ..
“Welcome to the White House, President. It feels like the good old days,” said Biden after introducing himself, “Joe Biden, Vice President of Barack Obama.”
“Being here brings back a lot of good memories. We had lunch together. I didn’t know who should sit where,” Biden added.
Obama lives about two miles from the White House, but is far from the Biden administration and is believed to be the first to visit on Tuesday since he resigned in January 2017.
Obama, the first black president, was elected for two terms in the majority. He was reelected in 2012 against Republican candidate Mitt Romney by 5 million votes and is widely popular among Democrats.
After talking, Byden issued a health insurance subsidy to eliminate what he called a “family defect” that made it difficult for low-wage workers to buy family health insurance through Obamacare. Signed an order to increase.
As a result of the change, Biden said, “Currently, 200,000 uninsured Americans are getting coverage, and nearly one million Americans expect coverage to be more affordable.”
Obamacare, passed in 2010, includes general provisions that allow young adults to continue their parents’ health insurance policies until the age of 26, and how health insurance companies treat people in existing conditions. Regulated.
However, other provisions of Obamacare, such as the obligation for people to buy private insurance policies and impose fines, were less popular. The Republican Party abolished that policy in 2017. Meanwhile, some GOP-led states have resisted the expansion of Medicaid legislation for low-income earners.
Obama joked on Tuesday about the failure to launch Healthcare.gov in 2013, when people should have been able to buy insurance policies.
“Let’s face it, it didn’t help there when we first rolled up [Affordable Care Act], The website did not work. It wasn’t one of my happiest moments, “Obama said.
However, Mr Obama said the bill “secured the principle of universal health insurance.”
“The analogy I used earlier for ACA was the same way that it applies to the early forms of social security, Medicare, and it was a starter home,” he said. “It secured the principle of universal health insurance and provided immediate help to families, but it demanded that we continue to develop and improve it.”
Biden hosts Obama as he suffers terribly in a series of crises, including inflation and illegal immigrants hitting 40-year highs as the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions prolong. did. Biden’s support in polls plummeted after the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, and the Democratic Party is preparing for the midterm elections.
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