Quote (EndlessSky @ 15 Nov 2017 19:32)
Obamacare mandate repeal to be included in tax reform bill. Weekly boner achieved
this provision makes it harder politically to get this bill through congress. but if they can pull it off, it's a huge victory.
and the rationale seems logical: the individual mandate is by far the least popular part of obamacare. liberal activist groups will have a much harder time rallying up people to "protect the individual mandate" compared to the summer protests to "protrect medicaid".
the particularly tricky thing about this move: if they succeed at repealing the individual mandate, obamacare will slowly collapse over time. repealing the individual mandate might be almost as good as repealing obamcare in its entirety. but the costs would probably not escalate too badly before next year's midterms... at least not badly enough to offset the political gain of finally having "repealed (what everyone hated about) obamacare".
a machiavellian move, but it can of course backfire badly if they fail to pass this bill.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Nov 15 2017 03:12pm