An applicant for U.S. citizenship holds an American flag during a naturalization ceremony at the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. From October 2015 through June 2016, 718,000 legal permanent residents applied for citizenship, up 8 percent compared to the same period leading up to the 2012 presidential election, according to federal data. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg A naturalization ceremony inTucson, Arizona. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation that could givesales of some niche health insurance products a boost.

The president is moving to require some types of would-beimmigrants to show that they have health coverage or equivalentarrangements in place when they apply for immigrant visas.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.