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Originally Posted by JPhillips
He and Congress are looking for a way to keep the popular parts and repeal the unpopular parts, but you can't have one without the other. No preexisting conditions without a mandate really will kill insurance companies. I know I'd immediately cancel my insurance until I needed more than generic prescriptions.
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Yep.
If the goal is full coverage, the only ways to get there are state-run health care, or a mandate to make sure that insurance companies aren't getting saddled with the high-risk population while the healthy population walks away.
If the goal is 'lower costs,' you can get there without mandates, but the trade-off is you completely screw over people with pre-existing conditions.