President Joe Biden announced a series of health moves Friday aimed at protecting unwitting Americans from what he described as unfair fees and dubiously marketed health plans, signaling what could be a key part of his health agenda ahead of the 2024 election.
Biden has made lowering health care costs and eliminating “junk fees” of all stripes a hallmark of his time in the Oval Office, and this most recent focus on insurance costs comes as the 2024 GOP primary field begins to shape up.
The trio of policies rolled out Friday morning target some of the more wonky aspects of health policy — limiting the duration of short-term health insurance, preventing providers from finding loopholes in a surprise billing law and kicking off an investigation into medical debt loans and credit cards — but taken together the White House is using the policies to illustrate Biden’s economic agenda.
