I honestly don’t see how it would work to repeal all of Obamacare but keep the mandate that with pre-exisitng condition mandate. That only works if you also have a mandate to force healthy people to buy insurance. Otherwise, only sick people will buy insurance and healthy people will just go without coverage and only buy it when/if they get sick.
Exactly right!! And they know that. Therefore, what they will do is set up separate risk pools for those with pre-existing conditions. That is a big change from the current law that says insurers have to write anybody. That guaranteed issue provision along awith the current weak individual mandate is what has led to the death spiral. The new system will likely carve those folks out into high risk pools and leave a stable individual market as the result.