Thirty-nine states have expanded Medicaid coverage meaning that now about 130 million Americans have insurance through Medicare and Medicaid. An executive order essentially lays out a goal, but it doesnt make anything concrete, says Dr. Daniel B. Fagbuyi, an emergency physician and Obama administration biodefense and public health advisor.This executive order is basically meaningless and has no legal effect, says Sklar. The editor, Lord, notes emphatically that no distinction can be made between numbered and unnumbered Orders on the basis of subject matter, general applicability, public interest, or legal effect., There have always been many forms of Presidential orders in addition to the numbered Executive Orders and Executive Orders included in the published "unnumbered series". If President Trump is truly committed to protecting Americans with preexisting conditions to have access to health insurance coverage, then he could have used an executive order to prevent the Department of Justice from trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, Sklar said.Health experts dont expect the executive order to result in many large-scale changes.This executive order, while stating that it is national policy to protect insurance coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions, does nothing to substantively protect that coverage, says Piatt.While lengthy, theres not much to the executive order in terms of substance. Evidence has shown that people with preexisting conditions may be 12 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than health people. External Relations: Moira Delaney Hannah Nelson Caroline Presnell Our numbers still differ slightly from the numbers posted in the NARA Executive Order Disposition Tables. The best known compilation includes over 1500 unnumbered orders, but the editor notes that the true total is unknown. But it was not until the Federal Register Act in 1936 that a more thorough contemporaneous documentation of Executive Orders began. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r