[grania]

So there's still going to be a mandate, but what the mandate is will vary from state to state? Will healthy people who don't want the feds to control their bodies have to choose where they live accordingly? How does that work when people move? Will that be "unequal protection" under the law?

If they'd just keep it simple and drop the mandate, competition will take care of everything else. President Trump could've done that with his signature, day 1.

[Owen]

Moderates would not accept that. So it’s off the table.

[9YearLurker]

It’s still got a million mandates from Obamacare—community ratings, kids on their parents plans, all sorts of minimum services to qualify as a plan, etc., etc..

It is essentially the GOP taking on ownership of Obamacare, with a tweak here or there.

[Monorprise]

If they do, it will be a means to let the totalitarian State Run Healthcare systems in leftist states collapse of their own weight.

Ultimately however the funding mechanism must be given completely to the States. Alabamans cannot be financing New Yorkers.

[Pollard]

Remember that saying “Vote With Your Feet”? It was an original intent of the founders(and they didn’t even have moving trucks) to keep things in self balance. I did it a few years ago. Moved off the SE coast to a flyover State. If this goes through, I won’t have to worry about the mandate.

At least it’s sending something back to the States as opposed to the opposite which has been going on since........Reagan?