The party stands for maximized profits for their corporate paymasters. It's conservatives who stand for nothing if we continue to vote for them.
The answer is simple. Drop the mandates. The private sector will take it from there if competition is restored.
Who would lose? Insurance companies and all of those companies benefitting from medical care expenses that people wouldn't bother with if they were held accountable financially.
We have seen it happen time and again.... Someone who wholeheartedly believes that he/she is "conservative" runs and we work our b***s off to get them elected. But once in Washington they get a taste of the money, power, probably even blackmail; and then they fall to the utter corruption and that is that.
It seems that a few good people are able to rise above this temptation. Examples: Bachmann, Cruz, Walker (perhaps, not sure about him yet). I watched this happen to a very close friend. There was a time when I thought he was salt-of-the-earth, and one of the finest men I had the privileged of knowing. A few months in Washington and he was divorcing his (childhood sweetheart) wife and his wealth was fastly growing. I think he is on his 3rd wife now (I lost count), his credibility as an attorney back in his hometown is in ruins, and the only good news is that his constituents did not reelect him this last go-around.
I still think that underneath it all, there is still a fine man there somewhere, and I hope and pray he can find find himself again one day and shed what he allowed Washington to do to him.