What happens when you take away the individual mandate?
A companion piece to the Podcast. This started during the Presidential Debate on the 29th of September. They were arguing about health insurance coverage, and VP Biden mentioned that Trump wanted to take away the health care of 20 million by getting rid of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) . If there was a fact check simply on that, it would be MOSTLY FALSE . as while the President did want to repeal the ACA, he also wanted something to replace it, and stated so from the beginning, specifically to protect those with pre-existing conditions. Of course if POLITIFACT did the fact check it would have ruled it as: MOSTLY TRUE . So I posed the research that I did as part of my Political Science Capstone Class (emphasis Healthcare). I went to Healthcare.gov, and followed step by step. I used my new income as a federal retiree, so as to make sure that if I were eligible for subsidies to lower the cost, they would be applied. (I wasn't) Here is what turned out. The cheapest plan, a Br