[Reno89519]

1. Transparency
2. Portability of plans
3. No state lines, plans valid everywhere
4. No preconditions, if you want to sell insurance, you must take everyone.
5. No required coverages, we should not have to pay for birth control, sex changes, etc.
6. Some ability to pick our docs, maybe plans with or without
7. Let free market set plans and rates

[Yaelle]

4. No preconditions, if you want to sell insurance, you must take everyone.

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By itself, that is unreasonable for a business. My plan is that all insurance companies have ONE YEAR, say, 2017, in which they have to take a certain %age each of clients who are already very ill. Who are already very costly. These ill people and their relatives will have only THAT SAME YEAR to be able to apply for and receive low cost health insurance plans like the healthy.

After that year, forget it. People who choose to not purchase catastrophic insurance will be turned away for cancer treatment or reconstructive surgery or whatever they need. Tough. They had their chance.