U.S. President
Donald Trump sought to woo seniors on Thursday with an executive order aimed at strengthening the Medicare health program by reducing regulations, curbing fraud, and providing faster access to new medical devices and therapies.
The order, which Trump discussed during a visit to a retirement community in
Florida known as the Villages, is the
Republican president's answer to some
Democrats who are pushing for a broad and expensive expansion of Medicare to cover all Americans.
Trump referred to such proposals as socialist and pledged to prevent them from coming to fruition, a political promise with an eye toward his 2020 re-election campaign in which healthcare is likely to be a major issue.