Dependents can stay on parents' health insurance longer
No more denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions
No cancelling coverage when a patient gets sick
No annual or lifetime caps on payment for treatment
Expands Medicaid so more families can get health insurance
Sets up, in the future, large exchanges where millions can buy health insurance policies as a group, thus being able to get a lower rate from economies of scale.
Requires everyone to buy health insurance, provides subsidies to most people to make things cheaper.
According to CBO, shaves about $130 billion off the federal deficit over the next 10 years, and then more than a trillion off over the decade after that.
Pays for it all by cutting the weird Medicare Advantage plan, which basically pays insurance companies to insure people instead of Medicare (at about twice the cost), and by raising taxes on rich people very slightly.
Meh.