It can’t even work under the left’s view of it without the mandate
because it still has the “pre-existing condition” coverage mandate in it for the insurance companies.
Basically, without the mandate to buy, folks can wait to get sick, then buy insurance.
CAN work. The penalty isn’t anywhere close to what insurance costs, so reducing the penalty to $0 doesn’t change much. Either way, enough people will abandon paid insurance that the gov’t will have to shell out billion$ to keep the healthcare industry afloat (too big to fail, dontcha know).
Exactly as planned.