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Originally Posted by Frequitude
What are "individual mandates" as it relates to Obamacare? Is it that those folks in that not-too-rich-not-too-poor category are required to purchase health insurance (which is then subsidized through tax credits)?
If so, wouldn't the "skinny repeal" of only those individual mandates totally screw up the entire system? So long as the law that insurers can't exclude pre-existing conditions is in effect, removing individual mandates would just incent people to only buy health insurance once they get sick. Insurance prices would skyrocket, in theory to the price of actual medical costs instead of the lower costs with distributed risk.
Am I missing something?
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You are completely correct. Under Obamacare, everyone is REQUIRED to have health insurance.
However, skinny repeal basically means that the name Obamacare remains, and when it fails, they can go hard on blaming Dems.