Trump Readies Major Change in Health Care 🏥 Without Congress

President Donald Trump teased an upcoming executive order on health care on Tuesday, potentially setting up a new front in the Obamacare wars that experts worry could destabilize insurance markets.

"With Congress the way it is, I decided to take it upon myself," Trump said at a meeting with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, referring to the inability of lawmakers to pass health care reform. "So we'll be announcing that soon as far as the signing is concerned. But it's largely worked out."

Trump offered few details, other than saying that the order would allow people to "cross state lines" to purchase health insurance and that it would "take care of a big percentage of the people we’re talking about" who have been dissatisfied with their coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Trump joked that it was necessary to protect Kissinger, who is 94, from paying the rising cost of individual plans under Obamacare.

"Henry Kissinger does not want to pay 116 percent increase in his premiums, but that's what's happening," the president said. (As a U.S. citizen over 65, however, Kissinger qualifies for Medicare, making the issue moot in his case.)

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