While waiting for a chance to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a conservative alternative, there are right ways and wrong ways to address its 2,400 pages of shortcomings. The right way was recently demonstrated by a group of five Republican senators, who proposed a bill to offer millions of Americans an escape from Obamacare’s unprecedented and unconstitutional (despite the opinions of five justices) individual mandate. The wrong way was recently demonstrated by a group of eight Republican senators, who proposed a bill to expand the reach of Obamacare’s direct outlays to insurance companies.

Three weeks ago, Senators Tom Cotton, Ben Sasse, Ron Johnson, Jeff Flake, and John McCain introduced legislation saying that if there’s only one Obamacare plan available in your area, the federal government can’t compel you to buy that plan against your will. You are exempt from the individual mandate. (Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has yet to bring this presumably popular legislation, which now has 16 cosponsors, up for a vote.)