Dear Indiana, your Sen. Dan Coats doesn't care if you have insurance.
Republican lawmakers have
categorically ruled out an easy fix to Obamacare's language, should the Supreme Court decide to strike down federal subsidies to the millions of people who purchased their health insurance through the federal exchange.
Congressional Republicans say they won’t move to preserve consumers’ health insurance tax credits if the Supreme Court strikes them down, raising the stakes in the latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act. […]
Leaders in the GOP-controlled House and Senate see the court challenge as their best hope for tearing apart a law they have long opposed. If the court strikes down the subsidies, Democrats are expected to clamor for lawmakers to pass a measure correcting the language in the law to revive them. Congressional Republicans say there is no possibility they would allow that.
"No, no, no, no," said Sen. Dan Coats (R., Indiana). "Even Democrats have acknowledged that this needs fixing." […]
Nobody in the Senate Republican caucus has said the party should tweak the law so it can continue as it is, particularly since such a move would preserve the unpopular requirement for people to buy coverage or pay a fine, said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
The problem for Republicans is that
there is no "fix" that Republicans can agree to. They're nowhere close to having one, despite having had five years to come up with something, anything that could come near to providing coverage to as many people as Obamacare covers. There isn't really a "fix" that could replace Obamacare other than Medicare for all, and that's never going to come from Republicans.
Of course, it's always possible that some of them might be forced to change their tune if the Supreme Court does what they really want it to, and guts the law. Because it's primarily their constituents who will lose their coverage, and be pretty damned unhappy about it.