No one wants to save the Obamacare mandate

Published February 4, 2017 5:19am ET



No one’s interested in trying to save Obamacare’s centerpiece as it faces certain death.

Even as the healthcare industry heavily lobbies Republicans to keep the Affordable Care Act’s other main components, such as its subsidies and Medicaid expansion, doctors, hospitals and insurers are stepping away from the law’s individual mandate for people to buy insurance or pay a fine.

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