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Trump signs executive order to ease Obamacare rules

Trump signs executive order to ease Obamacare rules

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to make lower-premium plans more widely available, including sales of cheaper policies with fewer benefits and fewer protections for consumers.

The order eases restrictions that the Affordable Care Act (placed on the individual health insurance market).“This order takes first steps to make it easier for businesses to help their workers afford high-quality and more flexible healthcare through reimbursement accounts,” Trump said.

“With these actions, we are moving toward lower costs and more options in the healthcare market and taking crucial steps towards saving the American people from the nightmare of Obamacare,” he added.

The order broadly tasks the administration with developing policies to increase health care competition and choice in order to improve the quality of health care and lower prices, report said.

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