That's just for show, for the base of the Republican Party (teabaggers).
Republicans have absolutely no desire or intention of getting rid of the mandate -- Their benefactors (same benefactors as Democrats) love the mandate. Republicans are just sorry they weren't able to deliver it to the insurance industry first.
Insurance company Iobbyists have fanned out all over Capitol hill and given Republicans and Democrats their wishlists. Republicans and Democrats will be working together to carve away more of what insurance companies are required to do for the money they're getting for these policies, so that they can eek out even larger profits. They'll work together, for maximum poIitical benefit for both, with names of amendments and ways that the poIiticians can spin the amendments to foooooI their constituents into thinking the amendments do something else.
Just think 'Clear Skies'-initiative. 'No Child Left Behind'. Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003, that Democrats signed onto, that should have had lowered pharmaceutical costs overall from decades of taxpayers subsidizing R&D which we were told would result in our owning these drugs outright (instead of a Medicare Part D with a doughnut hole that most recipients will be long ded before the closing, and which sets precedents for monopolistic practices and privatization). The promises of cheaper drhugs for us down the road were given away, leaving Americans on the hook and paying higher prices so that the privatized pharmaceutical industry can expand their markets overseas, in foreign markets. We're paying for what should have been free to us, so that Europeans can have cheap drhugs.
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