Analysis: ObamaCare market stable and profitable despite loss of individual mandate | TheHill

When Republicans repealed the health law’s mandate to have coverage in the 2017 tax law, many Democrats and some policy experts warned the move would cause chaos in the markets as healthy people dropped coverage, leaving only sick, expensive patients remaining. But the analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation released Monday finds that the fears largely did not come to pass in 2019, the first year without the individual mandate, demonstrating a measure of resilience to the health law.....
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/476916-analysis-obamacare-market-stable-and-profitable-despite-loss-of-individual

Obamacare is having a surprisingly good year - Vox

It's time to rethink the individual mandate.....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/26/18113313/obamacare-mandate-tax

Trump Administration Attack on Obamacare Will Cause Premiums to Be 16 Percent Higher: Report - Newsweek:

On average, premiums will increase as much as 16 percent in 2019 after the Trump administration's repeal of the individual mandate. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-attack-obamacare-will-cause-premiums-increase-1190136

NC Blue Cross says it could have slashed rates 22% if Republicans had not repealed Obamacare's individual mandate - Raw Story

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina revealed this week that the company could have lowered health insurance rates up to 22 percent if Republicans in Congress had not repealed Obamacare's individual mandate. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/nc-blue-cross-says-slashed-rates-22-republicans-not-repealed-obamacares-individual-mandate/

Tom Price walks back remarks on mandate repeal - POLITICO

Price told the World Health Care Congress on Tuesday that repealing the Obamacare mandate as part of the GOP's tax overhaul will harm insurance markets. ....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/02/tom-price-mandate-repeal-comments-565619

Two Republicans Just Admitted Their Agenda Is Built on Lies - New York Magazine

Tom Price just said repealing the individual mandate raises premiums — while Marco Rubio confessed that corporate tax breaks aren't helping workers. ....
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/tom-price-admits-his-case-against-obamacare-was-full-of-lies.html

Trump’s ex-health secretary accidentally told the truth about Obamacare repeal - Vox

Oh, really, Tom Price. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/1/17306624/obamacare-individual-mandate-penalty-tom-price-premiums

Iowa tries another end run around the Affordable Care Act - The Washington Post

As a growing number of Republican-led states look for end runs around the Affordable Care Act, Iowa is embracing a strategy that contends that not all health plans are actually health insurance....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/iowa-tries-another-end-run-around-the-affordable-care-act/2018/04/01/cd25baec-3429-11e8-94fa-32d48460b955_story.html

A Big Divergence Is Coming in Health Care Among States - The New York Times

As the Trump administration chips away at Obamacare, some states are building it back up....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/upshot/health-care-obamacare-states-divergence.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_up_20180228&nl=upshot&nl_art=2&nlid=78638145&ref=headline&te=1

No, Trump, you did not repeal Obamacare in your #GOPTaxScam

At the risk of sounding disrespectful, fuck you, Donald Trump.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/21/1726612/-No-Trump-you-did-not-repeal-Obamacare-in-your-GOPTaxScam

Obamacare Architect: How Is Trump Paying for Wealthy Tax Cuts? By Kicking People Off Their Health Insurance. -- FORTUNE

The Republican tax bill is a betrayal of the president's promise to provide affordable "insurance for everybody" that is "every bit as good on pre-existing conditions as Obamacare." Republicans last week passed a tax plan that repeals the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate under the guise of restoring consumer choice that the law supposedly stripped away. This is a canard: Repealing the individual mandate will curtail insurance options and price many Americans out of the market....
http://fortune.com/2017/12/04/tax-reform-bill-2017-explained-obamacare-individual-mandate/

Science Magazine: American College of Physicians urges Senate to vote no on tax bill

Provisions in the Senate tax bill that would eliminate the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) requirement that persons purchase qualified health insurance coverage (individual mandate) and lead to deep cuts to Medicare .. .
https://scienmag.com/american-college-of-physicians-urges-senate-to-vote-no-on-tax-bill/

The Senate’s tax bill is a sweeping change to every part of federal health care -- Vox

It slashes Medicare by billions and will leave millions without insurance. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/29/16712430/senate-tax-bill-change-federal-health-care

The GOP Crusade Against Obamacare's Mandate Says A Lot About How The Party Changed -- HuffPost

Senate Republicans are set to vote next week on tax legislation that would eliminate the financial penalty for people who don't get health insurance, often called the "individual mandate." And plenty of Republicans seem positively giddy about the prospect.....
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/individual-mandate-gop_us_5a15b4f6e4b03dec8249bc83

Trump At Odds With House, Senate On Giving Steeper Tax Cuts To Wealthy -- TPM

 President Donald Trump on Monday barged into congressional Republicans' carefully calibrated work on revamping the nation's tax code, calling for a steeper tax cut for wealthy Americans and pressing to add a contentious health care change to the mix. In a tweet, Trump commended GOP leaders for getting the tax overhaul legislation closer to passage in recent weeks and said, "Cut top rate to 35% w/all of the rest going to middle income cuts?" ....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-steeper-tax-cut-clashes-house-senate

Modified Senate tax bill would make individual cuts temporary, leave lower corporate rate permanent | TheHill

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released a modified version of the Senate tax bill late Tuesday that includes two key changes: the previously announced elimination of the ObamaCare individual insurance mandate and a sunsetting of individual tax rates in 2025. The sunset clause in Hatch's "modified mark" would mean the new individual rates in the Senate bill would end 10 years after their creation.....
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/360418-gop-chairman-releases-modifications-to-tax-bill-including-mandate-repeal

While Republicans plot tax giveaway to rich, states prepare for end of Children's Health program

While the House and Senate are figuring out how to give massive tax cuts to the rich while also destroying Obamacare and Medicare, they're ignoring the Children's Health Insurance Program and community health centers which haven't been funded in 45 days. So there's another 35 or so million people whose health care they are putting in jeopardy. On top of the 13 million who will lose insurance in the next decade if the individual mandate is repealed. Meanwhile, Texas is just weeks away from "chaos."....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/14/1715620/-While-Republicans-plot-tax-giveaway-to-rich-states-prepare-for-end-of-Children-s-Health-program