Pre-existing conditions would not prevent a Californian from buying health insurance on the individual market in 2014, if state lawmakers succeed with a push to make sure the main tenets of the national health law survive in the state – no matter how the U.S. Supreme Court rules later this month. Last week lawmakers put forth identical bills on pre-existing conditions in both houses of California’s legislature. The bills would also create new rules for setting premium rates. For example, an older person couldn’t be charged more than three times a younger counterpart according to a recent story at www.pennlive.com