Replacing Obamacare

Republicans agree that Obamacare should be repealed and replaced, but there is little consensus on what should replace it. One thing everyone seems to be tiptoeing around is the individual mandate. It's quite unpopular. But if you get rid of it, and you don't penalize preexisting conditions, then people can sign up when they get sick. That's not how insurance works. (It's worth noting that employers have worked around this problem with open enrollment periods)

What's interesting to me is that Republicans are against Obamacare at all. It coerces money from taxpayers and individual enrollees and delivers it to corporations. Republicans' corporate constituents should be thrilled. But it has Obama's name, so Republicans have a lot invested against it. It will be a major test of their manipulative skills to see if they can convince their gullible minions that they should accept keeping the individual mandate.