Just curious, but if the congress simply repealed the individual and corporate mandates (including specifying all the services we are now required to cover, like pediatric dentistry for 50 year olds with no kids, maternity and birth control for same) wouldn't that essentially put us back to pre-Obamacare days? Sure, allow 25 year olds to stay on parents' policy (its not free, somebody pays the extra premium), but also allow insurance companies to sell policies across state lines.
I don't think the entire bill needs to be repealed to get to an acceptable insurance policy.
There is a lot of sludge in the law, literally hundreds of pages of bad law.
http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/rights/law/index.html click on “read the full text”
Requiring a particular payment ratio is wrong.
Requiring that insurance plans include particular items, such as birth control, abortion, or gender “reassignment”, is wrong.
The medical device tax (which raises the cost of medical care) is the wrong way to pay for medical care.
Giving the IRS any role in medical care is wrong.
Giving FedGov any role in medical care is wrong, and their role should be cut back beyond just repealing ObamaCare.
Giving FedGov any role in regulating prices, or in imposing penalties on insurance companies for offering plans that Obama and Pelosi don’t like is wrong.
Restricting the factors that can be considered in medical insurance pricing (to age, tobacco, geographic area, number of people covered) is wrong - they should not be prohibited from considering alcohol/drug use and any other factors that the company wants to consider.
Guaranteed coverage is wrong; private companies should not have to sell “insurance” to individuals who already have a condition that will make the coverage a guaranteed loser for the company.
My car insurance does not cover oil changes, gasoline, or new tires, and requiring medical insurance to cover wellness, preventative care, and other routine expenses is wrong.
Requiring medical insurance to cover the dentist and to cover eyeglasses is wrong.
Providing FedGov subsidies to insurers is wrong.
Having FedGov health care “exchanges” is wrong.
I could go on for a LONG time, and I haven’t even explained why most of this is wrong. The wrongness of ObamaCare should be obvious to those who value limited government under the enumerated powers, individual freedom, and the free market. The point is that we should not repeal specific lines and clauses from ObamaCare; the correct approach is to repeal the whole thing or at least all but a small number of specified lines/clauses.