Obama to return to White House to celebrate health care reform

Obama to return to White House to celebrate health care reform


Former US President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow on November 08, 2021. NBC News reports Obama will return to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since he left office to promote the Affordable Care Act in an event alongside President Joe Biden.

Jeff J Mitchell | Getty Images News | Getty Images

Former President Barack Obama will return to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since he left office to promote the Affordable Care Act in an event alongside President Joe Biden, a White House official said.

The celebration of the 2010 health care overhaul will be their first joint appearance since they attended events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at Ground Zero in New York last fall, the official said.

Vice President Kamala Harris will join them in delivering remarks about the expansion of health care benefits under the law, as well as Biden’s efforts to further reduce health care costs and expand access to care, the official added.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and other members of the Cabinet, which includes a number of people who served in the Obama administration, are also expected to attend.

The event will mark Biden and Obama’s first appearance in Washington since Biden was inaugurated in January 2021.

In a video the White House released in June, Obama and Biden discussed Democratic efforts on affordable health care.

“Joe Biden, we did this together. We always talked about how if we could get the principle of universal coverage established, we could then build on it,” Obama said in the video.

Obama is likely to return to the White House again soon for the unveiling of his and former first lady Michelle Obama’s official presidential portraits.



Source

Healthy Returns: A key step forward for Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 pill
Health

Healthy Returns: A key step forward for Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 pill

Novo Nordisk flags flutter outside their office in Bagsvaerd, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, July 14, 2025. Tom Little | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. A closely watched pill from […]

Read More
Why U.S. cattle ranchers say Trump’s Argentine beef import talk is no solution to domestic food supply threat
Health

Why U.S. cattle ranchers say Trump’s Argentine beef import talk is no solution to domestic food supply threat

Cattle detained in the pens of the Chihuahua Regional Livestock Union , at the Jeronimo-Santa Teresa border crossing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on November 27, 2024, after the United States stopped imports of Mexican cattle due to the presence of screwworm. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Cattle ranchers in Texas and around the country […]

Read More
Anthropic launches Claude Life Sciences to give researchers an AI efficiency boost
Health

Anthropic launches Claude Life Sciences to give researchers an AI efficiency boost

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Anthropic on Monday announced Claude for Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers to use the company’s artificial intelligence technology in the advancement of scientific discovery.  Claude for Life Sciences is […]

Read More