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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by ende on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:22PM (#12322185)
Sure, but not really what I meant. Adding public option and subtracting individual mandate would basically be a step towards having single payer with secondary private market.
Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by dragonwriter on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:27PM (#12322244)
> Adding public option and subtracting individual mandate would basically be a step towards having single payer with secondary private market.

I don't see how it would be, unless by "subtracting individual mandate" you mean "replacing an individual mandate backed with a fee/tax/penalty for failure to comply with a universal tax, an option to select a private option with the tax refunded as a subsidy, and a default of using the public option if no private option is selected". Which, really, is retaining the individual mandate, but making it impossible to break rather than penalizing breaking it.