President Trump will sign a series of executive orders on health care Thursday as part of an announcement about his larger health care vision for the country, according to administration officials who conducted a call with reporters Thursday afternoon.
“Today the President will sign executive orders that direct HHS to take tangible steps toward delivering on the health care plan he’s laid out for America — better care, more choice and lower costs,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said. “In addition, the President will be laying out his broader plan for American health care and announcing other major steps to deliver lower health care costs following his drug pricing executive order in August.”
According to Azar, the executive actions will address individuals with preexisting conditions and surprise medical billing.
“The President is declaring that it is the policy of the United States to provide protections to ensure that Americans with preexisting conditions are protected regardless of whether the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, and its protections of preexisting conditions invalidated,” Azar said.
Some context: Today's announcements on executive actions still don't offer comprehensive details of a long-promised health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. The President has promised since 2017 that his plan would be released soon, but the administration has blown through a number of self-imposed deadlines to produce a plan.
The latest deadline set by the White House is less than two months before the 2020 election, but there is virtually no chance the legislation will be approved by Congress and ready for Trump to sign before Nov. 3.
Trump's attempts to replace the Affordable Care Act while in office go back to 2017, when efforts to pass a Republican health care bill backed by the White House fell apart. GOP lawmakers have shied away from tackling the issue since then.
Still, the President has repeatedly promised to unveil a new health care bill.
In an interview with Fox News this July, Trump said he would be signing a "full and complete health care plan" within two weeks. And in an Aug. 3 press briefing, Trump said his health care plan would most likely be released before the end of the month.
And at an ABC town hall last week, Trump said that his health care plan is "all ready."
"We're going to be doing a health care plan very strongly and protect people with pre-existing conditions," he said. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told reporters last week that an Obamacare-alternative health care plan will be rolled out sometime "before the election."
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