in congress failed to agree. i will sign an executive order taking the first steps to providing millions of americans with obamacare relief. it directs the department of health and human services, the treasury, to increase action to increase competition, increase choice and increase access to lower priced high quality health care options and they will have so many options.
effort by the white house to dismantle key parts of obamacare. yesterday president trump signed an executive order broadly instructing his administration to develop policies increasing health care competition. here s the president on thursday. i will sign an executive order taking the first steps to providing millions of americans with obamacare relief. this will cost the united states government virtually nothing. and people will have great, great health care. and when i say people i mean by the millions and millions. great, great health care. specifically the executive order calls for a study on commanding so-called association health plans. these plans allow small businesses to band together to buy health insurance. the plan would make it easier interest associations to form
of everybody 45 to 64 in the country is white and most vote republican and they could be facing higher premiums and less access to care as a result of the executive order that he s put forth today. i spoke with the legislative affairs director and he wouldn t commit that they have the votes but the 50 votes that they need to pass the tax cuts and he also said they re not going to deal with the repeal and replace of the obamacare until at least the spring of next year. jeffrey toobin, senator ben sass, he responded to the president s threat to pull the license of news organizations that he doesn t like. mr. president sass wrote, are you recanting on the oath you took on january 20th to preserve, protect and defend the first amendment to the constitution? how significant is that? well, you know, the question now is sort of how outraged can
and we re going to take care of that also because i believe we have the votes to do block grants at a little bit later time, and we ll be able to do that. premiums have gone skyrocketing. but today, one third of all the counties in america have only a single insurer selling coverage on an exchange and next year, it looks like nearly half of all counties in our country, think of that, all of the counties, one half, will have only one insurer and many will have none, many will have absolutely created roadblocks for people to have any form of the insurance we re talking about. this is why in a few moments i will sign an executive order taking the first steps to providing millions of americans with obamacare relief. it directs the department of health and human services, the
time. and we ll be able to do that. premiums have gone skyrocketing. but today 1/3 of all the counties in america have only a single insurer selling coverage on an exchange and next year it looks like nearly half of all counties in our country think of that. all of the counties, one half will have only one insurer. and many will have none. many will have absolutely created roadblocks for people to have any form of the insurance we re talking about. this is why in a few moments i will sign an executive order taking the first steps to providing millions of americans with obamacare relief. it directs the department of health and human services, the treasury, and the department of labor, to take action to increase competition, increase