"Assigned risk is a term used to describe a person or company who cannot get insurance through normal means and is placed in an assigned risk pool of people whom insurers must cover. This term is seen most commonly in car insurance although it may also be used to refer to companies which cannot get workers' compensation insurance by other means. The purpose of this is to ensure that everyone can access insurance because this is deemed better for society as a whole than the alternative."

People who were unable to get medical insurance do to pre-existing conditions (maybe other reasons) should have placed in an "assigned risk" pool and assigned to the various health coverage entities equally. Similar to a lottery.

Everyone gets covered and there in minimal increase in the bloated federal bureaucracy.

We did not need 2900 pages of legislation that no one person has read completely, even the people who wrote it.

We had the Congressional "win one for the Gipper!" mentality with Obama as the star player. This is how bad legislation is passed, it seems.