Zeke Emanuel on Trump’s O’Care Exec. Order: ‘No One Knows What It Really Means’

‘The executive order is cryptic’

RUSH EXCERPT:
EMANUEL: "The executive order is cryptic, no one really knows what it means. He also did say that if you make regulatory changes, you have to follow the law and bank regulatory changes that requires a common period and a notice period, those  actually take months, so, it doesn’t actually mean anything immediately. It is unclear what the burdens are that he wants relieved. If you run to the news conference, I think everybody could rally around the claim that we want lower-cost health care and we want to make sure as many people as possible get health insurance. That seems like one of those unifying bipartisan claims. I think that is the place we need to move. As the president’s officials will know, that is easier said than done. Lower-cost is not the easiest thing to achieve in health care. Many of us put in a lot of policies under the Affordable Care Act to try to get a lower cost and we did moderate cost for five years. But it’s going to be hard work."

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