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Originally Posted by hiredgun
The plan is not even remotely affordable without the personal mandate. The mandate is necessary for the bill to be economically sound.
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I agree with this, I don't like it, but it is necessary to make the numbers work in this bill. Republicans say they want to expand coverage by making healthcare cheaper. I was really hoping they had a way to do this and still allow for covering pre-conditions and 30+ million uninsured. The major things they offer are tort reform and state line competition but the estimated savings are not even close to accomplishing this. Once they actually published their counter bill they didn't even try to and would only cover 3 million uninsured and allow the insurance companies to continue denying coverage to those who have pre-conditions when they have lost their insurance because of job loss, etc...