I’m not backing down from the position that the government needs to get out of my health care.
Looking at ‘incentives’ isn’t going to change that.
I want a full repeal. No mandate whatsoever.

The viable alternative to healthcare overhaul is to eliminate all rules entirely. The healthcare insurance business is so rife with cronyist deals, mostly at the state level, that it needs to be scrapped completely.

How about the Federal government gets the hell out of the way altogether? Except using the interstate commerce clause correctly and demanding barriers against interstate competition be removed. If states want to dictate that people can not be denied because of pre-existing conditions and young people that still live at home can stay on mommies insurance within their bounds so be it. States could also do something about tort reform.

This is a question I ponder occasionally - do we put up with improvements that actually improve, or do we hold fast until the all parts of the offending segment get scrapped?

Neither alternative is going to happen next week, so I propose a third plan: one that truly does fix some of the worst problems, with an iron-clad plan for getting the Fed out of it within a specified period of time, with penalties for non-compliance.
I don't want to hold out for perfection forever - I will, if I have to, but I like the idea of "phased-in perfection". and you know that means that WE have to oversee it!