Individuals would be required to have basic health insurance, the way most states require automobile insurance.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

This can help individuals better understand what to do should they develop a health problem.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

She found that such individuals who did not have health problems were eighty percent more likely to report a new health problem after losing their job.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Insurance companies would be barred from denying coverage to individuals with existing health problems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Legislation that the president and his fellow Democrats want to pass by the end of the year would create a government health insurance option to compete with private insurers, require all individuals to have health insurance and mandate employers to provide it.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

At an estimated $87 billion, the measure would expand health insurance coverage to about currently without it,create new private insurance marketplaces, And,like the slightly more expensive measure passed by the House of Representatives, it would end a practice by private insurance companies of denying coverage to individuals with existing health problems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25