Which would never be passed by a GOP House.
You think not? If every private insurer went belly up overnight, you don’t think that even a GOP House would feel compelled to do something to get coverage for people? It would be a complete disaster. That’s why I can’t understand why Boehner was trying to get the mandate thrown out as part of the debt ceiling negotiations. What was the point? The truth is that the mandate is pretty much an absolute requirement in order for the law as a whole to be valid in any way.