alcoholism. and speaking personally opioid addiction has been presence in my hometown and my family for years. it was years ago in fact that i lost a close relative to ron stantly struggled with opioids. so this christmas and holiday season all of us should consider following the president s example and think about what we can dpo in our own private lives to help fight back against a crisis that s tearing american families a part. we all know people who are hurting this holiday season. and i know that we as americans will rise to their aide. so thanks again for having me here today. and thanks once again to president trump for his generous donation. thanks very much. thank you, acting secretary har begin, i appreciate you begin here today on behalf of the department. do you have a cold? i actually have strep throat so if you bear with me a little bitty might sneak a sip of water. thank you for your concern. and i may not stay as long as
today. they ll love trick or treating in the executive office building and i ll look forward to taking questions maybe from the kids today. a couple of things to note. as you all so yesterday was an important fight yesterday by opioid by decoration of public health emergency to address the opioid crisis, the president is mobilizing his entire administration to confront this issue. the president s stirring remarks yesterday which included a powerful story of how addiction impacted his family set the stage for the country to unite behind this fight to save lives. in the wake of the announcement, several cabinet members and agency heads are traveling around the country to events to the opioid events. among those are sessions, acting secretary har begin and acting i.c.e. director of homeland.
in fact, they prevented these plans from lasting more than three months. they will take action to fix that and to make these affordable flexible plans much more widely available. so we re going to have a very widely available plan that s going to cost much less and from the standpoint of the united states government, we will be very happy, won t we? so they ll get better and it will cost us nothing. that s not too bad, right? we need some more answers like that. finally, today s executive order instructs secretaries acosta, mnuch mnuchin, and har begin to explore how they could use tax reimburse arrangements to compensate their employees for their health care expenses. currently one-third receive coverage at work.