GOP redoubles efforts to end ObamaCare mandate

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL - 10/22/17 08:30 AM EDT

The GOP is redoubling its efforts to eliminate ObamaCare’s individual mandate, a step that would be yet another blow to the health care law.

They are doing so even as key Senate Republicans seek a bipartisan deal that could strengthen the law by extending critical payments to insurers that help low-income people afford their copays and deductibles.

The requirement that everyone buy insurance or pay a penalty is a bedrock principle of the health law, and following the failure of the Senate to repeal ObamaCare in its entirety, the mandate has become a fresh target for conservatives.

The White House this week said the bipartisan bill negotiated between Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) must repeal the individual mandate before President Trump would support it.


Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/356466-gop-redoubles-efforts-to-end-obamacare-mandate

[leon8822]

1. The US Supreme Court upheld the mandate

[greymattermom]

2. What about the mandate that hospital emergency rooms see uninsured patients?

Hospitals are businesses after all, right Republicans?

[sandensea]

4. They would have nixed that too, if they could have.

Never let it be said that our efforts were in vain, because that's one pretty significant example in which we've been able to hold them at bay (for now).

[MichMan]

3. What do you think an appropriate fine would be?

What do you think an appropriate fine should be for those people who refuse to buy insurance and either pay out of pocket or use the ER?