"Of 12 bold ideas in the legislation, fully half have never appeared in any previous bill or in any previous proposal -- Republican or Democrat. [T]he bill corrects the major ways in which federal policies create perverse incentives and removes the federal government as a source of some of our most important health policy problems.... [T]he legislation makes good on what many regard as the three broken promises of the [ACA]: universal coverage, cost control, and real protection for people with pre-existing conditions.... [T]he bill paves the way for a medical marketplace in which empowered patients can make more of their own choices, while enjoying protection against the cost of catastrophic illness -- both the financial cost and the cost of rationing by waiting."  MORE >>