BUSINESS/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: ” ‘Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States’
Trump’s Executive Order on health care seeks to do three main things: allow small businesses more leeway to group together when providing or purchasing insurance, increase the availability and duration of short-term health insurance plans and widen the use of Health Reimbursement Arrangements, which let employers reimburse employees for health expenses rather than provide insurance themselves.
Analysts expect it will increase the availability of cheaper, bare bones plans for the young and healthy and raise premiums for older and sicker Americans. On Twitter, Senator Chuck Schumer called it ‘a spiteful act of vast pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America.’ “
-Avalon Zoppo, Amanda Proenca Santos, and Jackson Hudgins, “Here’s the Full List of Donald Trump’s Executive Orders,” NBC News, Oct 17, 2017 11:58am