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The best solution would be for the federal government to say, 'Yes, we do provide coverage and it's from day one.'

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

There should be choice in healthcare.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families.

But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.

This pro-choice issue is a legal issue that should be decided by the courts.

I want to give consumers way more choices in health care. Choice and competition always drive down costs better than central control.