Reply #433: Where do people get the idea that the Republicans like the mandate?

[BzaDem]

Out of all the inaccurate statements that I have seen about the healthcare bill, this one absolutely takes the cake. Republicans hate the mandate more than anything else in the bill. They have 22 states suing to get rid of the mandate from the rest of the bill. Their first attempt at repeal in the House was a repeal of the MANDATE (not anything else).

Yes, getting rid of the mandate would make the pre-existing condition regulations unworkable, so we would be back to the land of sick people being charged 20 times more than healthy people, but that is an incidental consequence of their desire to have big gubmit stop telling private citizens who can afford to contribute for their healthcare not to contribute.