>Repealing individual mandate per this bill will kill the ACA once and for all. No insurer will want to participate if they must cover existing conditions for newcomers who faced no penalty for failing to insure until they got sick. This also ends any chance of normalizing cost and delivery of US healthcare to match best-of-breed systems elsewhere. Constantly warring on other nations may dismay, but refusing to help insulate fellow citizens from huge costs if they dare to become unwell, is just mean. IMHO.

I'm bold enough to back off of my otherwise generally "hands-off" market philosophy and say that there should be a safety net for those who can't afford good health care (and I said "care", not "coverage").

I have no problem with programs, so long as someone can come up with a model for a country of roughly 323 million people, and one that won't stick it to the middle and lower-middle class working Americans. I'm willing to back off my corporate stance and say that maybe the richest should pay a bit more - so long as it doesn't impact the lower-middle and middle class. ACA wound up pissing off enough Americans that it gave rise to Trump and wound up trashing a DNC that can neither defend ACA's record, or run away from it.

Sadly, ACA does not meet either condition. It absolutely shafted the groups I've mentioned. It was bad 1.0 software - it was the dBase IV of the health care world - and was never improved.