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.
there is always action happening. and we will have the president meeting with secretary of state tillerson, the u.n. ambassador, nikki haley this afternoon. hr mcmaster, national security adviser. we re also told that here in the sort of temporary white house offices where we re broadcasting from, we ll have two other members of the cabinet, labor and education. secretaries acosta and devos will be coming and talking to reporters here about what the administration is doing. and we have also just learned our colleague, peter alexander, is reporting that three top members of the president s team, including his son-in-law, jared kushner, will be making another trip to the middle east in their ongoing work to try to forge some kind of consensus, some kind of peace. that apparent trip approved through the new chief of staff, john kelly and other top members of the president s team. so a lot of developments happening here. and it s a day in which the president sort of teed things up again wi