Republicans really trashed all the good ideas in RomneyCare/ACA. Now they need to come up with things that work, but they are hard pressed to find ones that are different. Obviously, charging a 60 year old single woman who makes $20000 per year $14000 for her health insurance is a boneheaded flub. If you want subsidies/tax credits that help, they have to be income-based not age based. But there's a name for such a plan: ObamaCare

If they want to keep people buying insurance, maybe they should go back to the much larger fine for non-enrollment that was in RomneyCare. It was as high as 50% of the cost of the cheapest policy. They got up to 98.1% of the people in the state covered!

They did run into the time-gaming problem: People would buy insurance just when they needed care and then drop out when they got well. At one point, over 1000 people did this. For $1200 - $1600 they would get $10,000 worth of care. So exactly how to stop this requires some careful thought.