I would have supported a bill supporting a health savings bill, where one saves for medical needs, and for which certain critical treatments are negotiated. Well, I guess we suck as a nation at saving, so that probably won’t work.

This is what I was hoping for.. plus the ability to allow the savings plan to be passed on/inherited. Add in not being able to be canceled out of a policy you have been paying into for years just because you now became a liability to the insurance company, ban on region pricing for pharmaceuticals (well at least one of these got into the bill). Looking at why hospital rooms are so expensive would also have been useful.

As I have mentioned as well as others. The current bill that was passed through Congress has nothing about reducing costs. There were some very simple things that could have been passed to reduce costs significantly to the benefit of all citizens. Instead, they had to go for a 2,000+page monstrosity.

The real problem is the costs to anyone needing health care. Mandating insurance does nothing for the costs. It actually makes it harder to push for the reduction. It hides them under another bureaucratic layer that also happens to have a profit motive.