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<\/a>Obama stepped up to the lectern and drew laughs when he acknowledged \u201cVice President Biden\u201d before adding, \u201cThat was a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biden didn\u2019t appear to think he was being shown up by his former boss during the unusually jovial event, where few people wore anti-COVID-19 face masks.<\/p>\n \u201cMr. President, welcome back to the White House, man. It feels like good old days,\u201d Biden said after introducing himself as \u201cJoe Biden, Barack Obama\u2019s vice president.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBeing here with you brings back so many good memories. We just had lunch together. We weren\u2019t sure who was supposed to sit where,\u201d Biden added.<\/p>\n Although Obama lives about 2 miles from the White House, has kept his distance from the Biden administration and his Tuesday visit is believed to be his first time back since he left office in January 2017.<\/p>\n Obama, the first black president, was elected to two terms with broad majorities. He was re-elected in 2012 by a 5 million-vote margin over Republican candidate Mitt Romney and remains broadly popular among Democrats.<\/p>\n After speaking, Biden signed an order boosting health insurance subsidies in order to eliminate what he called a \u201cfamily glitch\u201d that made it difficult for low-paid workers to buy health insurance for family members via ObamaCare.<\/p>\n Biden said that \u201c200,000 presently uninsured Americans are going to gain coverage and nearly 1 million Americans will see their coverage become more affordable\u201d as a result of the change.<\/p>\n ObamaCare, passed in 2010, contained popular provisions that allowed young adults to remain on their parents\u2019 health insurance policies until age 26 and regulated how health insurance companies treated people with pre-existing conditions.<\/p>\n But other provisions in ObamaCare were less popular, including a mandate that people buy private insurance policies or face a fine. Republicans repealed that policy in 2017. Some GOP-led states, meanwhile, resisted the law\u2019s expansion of Medicaid for lower-income people.<\/p>\n Obama joked Tuesday about the botched 2013 launch of Healthcare.gov, through which people were supposed to be able to buy insurance policies.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>