[Persevero]

While I’d have preferred to have a grand bonfire of Obamacare, complete with Republicans marching down a Hall with a gavel throwing their heads back in laughter a la Pelosi, I really think eliminating the individual mandate effectively killed it.

[Alberta's Child]

The individual mandate was never eliminated. Instead, they just reduced the penalty to $0. Nothing stops Congress from raising it again in the future.

That was the only way they could deal with the mandate without 60 votes in the Senate.