Drop this mandate on principle, and then drop all of the mandates for coverage that are placed on the insurance industry, and insurance will probably get much less expensive.
There is absolutely no reason, for example, why an insurance carrier should be prohibited from offering a health care plan with a $1 million annual cap, a $10 million lifetime coverage limit, or any other conditions that are acceptable to their customers.
Yet this legislation does not remove caps on coverage and does not remove the requirement that pre-existing conditions are covered. So there is absolutely no reason to believe that this will do anything to reduce or control the costs of premiums.
Or why people shouldn’t be allowed to shop across state boundaries for the right kind of health insurance.