Republicans are playing a game here, and it has several moves.
Step 1 is to get rid of the mandate (by legislation or court action), which is unpopular but needed to ensure the insurance model works even if you let in people with preexisting conditions (otherwise everyone would wait until sick to get insurance, so the risk pool would all be sick, so there would effectively be no insurance). Step 2 involves the insurance companies, now in a panic, making an all out effort to scrap the whole thing because of the problem created by Step 1. Step 3 is to challenge the balance of the bill on the basis that the courts can't pick it apart but must instead either invalidate or validate the law as a whole.
All this because we, as a group, are unwilling to do what all of our friends and allies have done and provide universal medical coverage. (By the way, they all spend less GDP than we do and have better medical outcomes.)
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