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Trump’s first executive order takes aim at ACA (The Staffing Stream)

January 23, 2017

President Trump’s first executive order announces a broad policy to seek the prompt repeal of the Affordable Care Act and to implement other strategies to achieve healthcare reform, writes attorney George Reardon in a The Staffing Stream blog post. The brief executive order is somewhat inconsistent, according to Reardon, whose practice focuses on the staffing industry. It declares that the policy of the Trump administration is to ensure that the law is being efficiently implemented. However, it also commands federal agencies to minimize or undo all financial and regulatory burdens that the law imposes on “individuals, families, healthcare providers, health insurers, patients, recipients of healthcare services, purchasers of health insurance, or makers of medical devices, products, or medications.”