Dick Morris and anyone else saying this: Pure bullshit. Obamacare is LOADED with fascist top down controls wrecking our freedoms, and they remain right there abusing us all whether you let a few people off or not.
In fact, if you remove the “mandate” all you do is penalize the actual people buying all the medical care in these USA even MORE by preventing those mandated to buy from having to take part in the mass mess.
It might even be the WORST thing that could be done. They become true freeloaders again because they will in fact be taken care of by our ERs and hospitals and free clinics, right along with the illegal aliens who also can get a ton of care free from the feds, but now these formerly mandated Americans pay nothing.
We need to get rid of the artificial garbage that makes insurance expensive, starting with mandates that everyone pays the same, no matter how much you are messing yourself up, and continuing with making everyone pay for things that everyone always has to get anyway (more like buying food than insurance), like basic preventive care: SOCIALISM in other words:
The result: Get all the free things you want when you are NOT sick, like free $6,500 colonoscopy for WELL people, but that drives up the price of everything, so for SICK people’s coverage such you pay a premium of $13,000 a year to get a plan with deductibles of $6,500, wow, what a deal those Democrat geniuses have made!
Repeal this giant piece of unconstitutional illegal fascism all the way.
There is NOTHING appropriate about only removing the “mandate” — except for placating a small number of people, the crap continues even worse for the rest.
So you think that the government should be allowed to force people to buy insurance who do not want it so that they can subsidize other people who want cheaper coverage? How conservative of you! Have you always been such a huge government proponent? By the way this “freeloader” without insurance has never failed to pay 100% of my medical bills and resents you trying to steal my money via the IRS just so your bills will be cheaper. After what you wrote, you should be the last person decrying “SOCIALISM”—unless hypocrisy is your thing.
OK. Right now, the system is taking care of hospitalized drug addicts who have SERIOUSLY messed themselves up. I mean, messed themselves up to the tune of high six figures needed to put them back on the street. Some have Medicaid, others can't be bothered to sign up for it or are ineligible.
Those people are consuming taxpayer dollars because those same taxpayers DEMAND a system where "everybody is taken care of". That's what we have - a system where everybody is taken care of - but we do it in the craziest, most expensive and disorganized fashion you can imagine.
What "clean repeal" comes down to is either not treating them or sticking other sick people with the cost.
Members of Congress may not know much, but they can count votes like pimps can count money.
If you dismantle the arrangements that provide essentially free care to the helpless (and, depending on your definition of "helpless", there are tens of millions of them), you will see 400 Democrats in the House and 65+ in the Senate by 2020, and they will do a lot more damage than a national Trump-designed single payer system would do.