Health care politics Someconservatives, who have cheered Trump's attempts to undermineObamacare, worry that the response to the virus will lead to anincreased government role in health care that will be difficult toundo. (Photo: Shutterstock)

After spending much of his presidency trying to upend agovernment health care program put in place by his predecessor,President Trump is now overseeing a massive expansion of thefederal government's role in health care.

"President Trump is probably now overseeing one of the biggestexpansions in government health spending in one year ever," LarryLevitt, the executive vice president for health policy at theKaiser Family Foundation, tells Politico.

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