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A few highlights of the plan:

An "employer mandate" requiring employers with more than 10 employees to provide insurance

An "individual mandate" requiring people who aren't covered to buy health insurance

Subsidies for low income people to purchase insurance

Open Medicare and the insurance program for federal employees to the public, but not require people to participate in them

Forbid insurers from denying coverage for pre-exisiting conditions. (I'll bet they can still charge exorbitant rates though. The subsidies will have to be tailored for this.)

She tries to avoid some of the failures of her 1993 plan: no new agencies are created and she throws a sop to the insurance industry by throwing lots of new customers and federal money their way.

Personally, I'd like to kill off the insurance industry and switch to single-payer, but the plan is certainly better than the existing situation. Edwards and Obama have similar plans, except Obama does not have an individual mandate.