[DungeonMaster]

Trump told the IRS not to enforce the "individual mandate." That is the essential coercive element. No mandate, no O-care. Morris said he did this last week---in fact, I heard more than four weeks ago that the IRS was NOT enforcing this and just assumed it came from Trump.

Second, the requirement that you buy from an "approved" insurance company---Trump waived that as well by telling HHS to approve any policy as "qualifying."

I suspected this. Instead of a heart shot it's a lung shot. It will still bleed out and die you just have to track it farther.

[newgeezer]

Are insurers still mandated to cover existing conditions... without charging the already-sick person higher premiums commensurate with the “risk”? (No longer a risk, it’s a money pit. Try calling to buy homeowners’ insurance while your house is burning. That’s NOT insurance; at that point, you should be shopping for a mortgage on a replacement house!)

If people are still able to get “insurance” for existing conditions, and pay the same premiums as healthy people, Obamacare has NOT been repealed, effectively or otherwise.