Biden healthcare order set to unravel Trump's legal fight over Medicaid

President Biden's Thursday executive order on healthcare is set to unravel a Trump-era legal fight over Medicaid.

"There's nothing new that we're doing here, other than restoring the Affordable Care Act and restoring Medicaid to the way it was before Trump became president," Biden said before he signed the order, charging Trump with making the two "more inaccessible, more expensive, and more difficult for people to qualify."

The order, which the Biden administration touted as an effort to "reverse attacks" on President Barack Obama's signature achievement, instructs the Health and Human Services Department to open a special coronavirus-era enrollment period for people to sign up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. But it also compels other federal agencies to reexamine Trump-era policies regarding both the ACA and Medicaid, with the end goal of it being easier for more people to enroll.