I think you can still buy private health insurance, and you cannot be denied coverage because you'd now have a pre-existing condition. But you wouldn't be eligible for subsidies under Obamacare.No no Tan Man. Get rid of the mandate, and find the money elsewhere. Don't make insurance companies cover people with pre-existing, but instead just put them on medicare ... with supplemental insurance policies funding the co-pays like oldsters buy.
When people who chose not to buy insurance get sick, cover them, but make them wait a full calendar year before coverage goes into effect.
And call it repealed and replaced.
Voila!
That's how O Care works now . If you miss the open window you can't get it .