The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was important for helping to prevent and treat COVID.
Outside of the usual framework, the ACA also gave hospitals, nursing homes, and other parts of the federal government extra money.
Medicaid was barred from kicking people off of the program for the rest of the pandemic.
The Biden administration said this week that it would end the public health emergency for Covid, a sign that federal officials believe that the pandemic has moved into a new, less dire phase.
The move carries both symbolic weight and real-world consequences for millions of Americans.
Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter for The New York Times.