Minimum Essential Coverage eliminates major medical only plans for people over a certain age, somewhere around 25 or 30 years old. So I end up paying what I think is an obscene $260 a month for the cheapest plan in my state, a Bronze plan with a $5000 deductible and only pays out 60%. My insurance is triple what it was with a major medical plan that paid out 80%. I do not consider this an improvement. Going back to bartering chickens and services would be an improvement. Destroying the perversion that is health care as a financial product to single payer would be an improvement.