Would restoring the Individual Mandate of the Affordable Care Act

[no_hypocrisy]

pass Congress now?

I'd suggest an EO from Joe, but that's temporary and could be yanked in 4-8 years with a new administration.

[Frasier Balzov]

1. Medicare eligibility for all is a better objective.

ACA was surely always a stepping stone to that end.

[RDANGELO]

3. If we did that now, I think it would be 2010 all over again.

The Republicans would use the same scare tactics that they did for the ACA. We would lose the house and the Senate. If we passed the public option and juiced it up To make it much more affordable, as people lost or changed jobs, they would go into the public option and the employer healthcare system would die on the vine.

[RDANGELO]

2. Just pass the public option.

The Republicans put the fine down to zero because they thought that would kill it. As I understand it, there are still over 20 mill. enrolled. Just pass the public option and juice it up to bring down the premiums and deductibles. Installing the public option brings us closer down the road to universal healthcare.

[Cicada]

4. California has adopted its own individual mandate

And has added its own additional subsidies, extending subsidies from 400% of poverty level to 600%, tho the state subsidy is preet small.