SWELL, ANOTHER OBAMACARE 'BENEFIT': the federal government is drafting a
'basic [healthcare] benefits package' for me to pay for.

The health care law requires that essential (my emphasis) benefits include outpatient, hospital, emergency, maternal, newborn and children's care, prescription drugs, mental health and substance abuse treatment, rehabilitation, labs, prevention and wellness.

This is just a mandate by another name. Why not let me choose which benefits I deem essential? Those would be hospitalization and and outpatient/prescription charges equal to those negotiated by the major health insurance companies.

Nothing more.