At this late hour, I think we all have to face the reality that: The mandate is not going away. For reasons that Ezra Klein and others have already elucidated- if you are going to force insurers to take all comers, you must also have a mandate to force healthy people to buy insurance. The two go hand-in-hand. As much as we hate it- the mandate is going to stay in the bill.
So the only question now is- how do we make this shit sandwich a little more palatable.
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