Boehner: Republicans won't repeal and replace Obamacare

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12. There are ways for them to bring it back - that's what the Cassidy-Collins plan does

In their plan, instead of the individual paying the penalty directly, if you go without insurance for some period, the next insurance policy you get will charge you a "late registration fee" (aka the penalty), and then the insurance company will pay the penalty to the IRS.

(Edit: Oh, there was another penalty in there too, but explaining that one would require explaining the whole plan.)

It's absolutely a smoke-and-mirrors way of hiding the existence of the penalty from the voters that were groomed to hate it, but it may solve the problem.

I read their entire bill last night, because I'm a huge nerd like that, and I was actually impressed how much of that kind of slight-of-hand they managed to pull of it in it, using a lot of conservative buzzwords to describe a plan that in some regards is much more socialist than the ACA.