The president announced a series of executive orders that will do little to alter health care for most Americans during an event in North Carolina.
President Trump announced Thursday that he would seek to guarantee health care coverage for Americans with preexisting conditions, a protection that is already part of the Affordable Care Act his administration is seeking to repeal.
On a call earlier in the day, White House officials said that Trump’s “protections” for preexisting conditions would not actually be law should the ACA be repealed, but were a"defined statement of U.S. policy.” The White House also announced that Trump would be giving Congress a Jan. 1 deadline to pass legislation on surprise medical billing and encouraging more health care choice.
Story continuesIn June, the Trump administration filed a brief to the Supreme Court urging them to overturn the ACA in a case backed by 20 Republican-led states. The White House’s brief included a section specifically arguing that the ACA’s protections for those with preexisting conditions must be overturned as well, contradicting Trump’s repeated statements that he and Republicans supported maintaining them.
More than 202,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus and millions have lost their health insurance due to unemployment. Early in his presidency, Trump was surprised by the complexities of attempting to overhaul a massive industry Americans use to stay alive.
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