Reforming America’s Healthcare System Through Choice and Competition

Executive Order 13813, “Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States,” directs the administration, to the extent consistent with law, to facilitate “the development and operation of a healthcare system that provides high-quality care at affordable prices for the American people” by increasing consumer choice and promoting competition in healthcare markets and by removing and revising government regulation. Section 6 of the executive order requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in consultation with the secretaries of the Treasury and Labor and the Federal Trade Commission, to provide a report to the President. The purpose of the report is to review existing state and federal laws, regulations, guidance, requirements and policies that limit competition and choice and to identify actions that states or the federal government could take to further these goals. It also includes input contained in 262 comments received in response to a request for information (RFI) publicly released on December 26, 2017.