It’s not a mandate, it’s an incentive with a penalty for non-compliance

Under GOP bill, anyone who goes w/o health coverage for two months or more would face a 30% surcharge on premiums for a year. pic.twitter.com/krmLYLTOTn

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 6, 2017

Or more accurately, a Young & Unrich Persons Exclusion & Insurance Company Bonus Provision. However, if Reps Ryan wants to claim this is about choice because he put the word decision in the section, he needs to explain why a 30% penalty on people with a 63 day coverage gap isn’t a mandate.

And if anyone doesn’t think that the look-back process will be prone to errors that find an enrollee had a coverage gap of 64 days, please contact me about a nice deal on a membership to this fantastic, beautiful, the best, golf resort in West Palm Beach, Fla.