President Biden intends to reinstate policies repealed by former President Trump, including the Obama administration’s rule allowing foreign entrepreneurs to work in the U.S. for up to five years, and the Biden administration’s compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which provides legal health care coverage for gay and transgender patients.
Former President Barack Obama proposed the International Entrepreneur Rule three days before he left office in 2017, approving business people who can raise at least $250,000 in venture capital funding, hire 10 employees or meet other criteria to work in the United States for The maximum five years.
Trump opposes this policy, and the Trump administration has issued a notice that it intends to repeal this rule. Although it has not actually been repealed, many entrepreneurs and venture capital firms have interpreted this notice to mean that the Trump administration will not approve their entrepreneurial applications.
The Biden administration plans to begin publicizing the program and eventually “formally reinstate” its legal effect.
There is currently no “venture founder” visa category in the U.S., and foreign entrepreneurs must enter the U.S. under other visa categories, none of which are fully compatible with their status.
In addition, the Biden administration intends to reverse another Trump-era policy. Unlike Trump’s proposed scaling back of the ACA’s interpretation of gender discrimination against gay and transgender people, the Biden administration will provide legal protections for gay and transgender patients from discrimination when seeking health care coverage.
The Trump administration’s Department of Health changed the previous administration’s policy in 2019 to more closely align with the original ACA, which did not explicitly mention gender identity for those covered; some groups and Democrats believe that the Trump administration’s approach makes it easier for doctors and hospitals to discriminate against transgender patients and refuse to operate on them because of other positions, such as religion.
The Department of Health announced on October 10 that it is running the ACA’s sex discrimination ban under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act; Secretary of Health Xavier Becerra said the Department is interpreting the ACA’s anti-discrimination provisions in light of last year’s Supreme Court ruling, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age and disability. The ACA prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability.
Becerra said the Ministry of Health believes that gay and transgender people and all people should have access to health care free from discrimination and interference.
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