I am with you that certain aspects of it can never be repealed.
- Exclusion on pre-existing conditions.
- Provision that Junior gets to keep coverage to age 26.
Scrap either of those and the media will use Poor Sucker from South Succotash stories to beat you to a bloody pulp.
That’s just the political reality of the thing.
Problem is, with that pre-existing rule it becomes impossible to underwrite insurance under traditional private sector market rules.
The irony is that extending coverage to adult children up to age 26 has nothing to do with actually covering health care costs for them. The whole purpose of that measure is to drastically increase the number of younger insured people who will have premiums paid for them but have almost zero health care needs.