Tom Cotton’s Genius Move to Repeal Obamacare’s Individual Mandate

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Senator Tom Cotton deserves credit for bringing Republicans around to a daring, controversial, and politically brilliant idea: repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate through the Republican tax overhaul.

Cotton “brought Obamacare repeal back from the dead,” Politico reports. He rallied his fellow Republican lawmakers behind the idea by showing them how the tax savings from ending the individual mandate could be used to broaden the tax cuts without blowing past debt limits imposed by Senate rules, according to Politico.

Far from complicating tax reform efforts, the inclusion of the repeal simplifies it. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the repeal will save the government $338 billion over the next decade. That made room for the expansion of child tax credits, local property tax credits, and small business tax credits without offending the sensibilities of deficit hawks.

The genius of Cotton’s plan, however, only begins with the budget. Far less noticed is how it derails a key talking point that helped undermine earlier attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare. Those efforts were crippled by misleading stories about how many Americans would “lose health insurance” under the proposals. But no one loses health insurance because the mandate goes away. It simply allows those who would prefer to go without insurance to avoid it.

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