As reported Firday by the Washington Examiner “Here’s what Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows of the Freedom Caucus said about Obamacare repeal”

They’re willing to vote for the Republican bill if two issues that seriously affect health costs are dealt with…Essential Health Benefits and community ratings mandates.

Both adversely raise costs – simplified, the EHB allows a Health-&-Human Services secretary the discretionary latitude to declare ANYTHING to be deemed ‘essential’.

(The appalling ambiguity of this mandate screams for its elimination.)

And (again, simplified) the community ratings mandate makes a policy for a healthy twenty-one year-old the same price as the policy for an eighty year-old.

(And trust us, it’s not the eighty year-old that gets the break.)

As the Freedom Caucus people noted, of the 12 most serious mandates with this Democrat Obamacare disaster, only 2 were addressed…they’re asking for 2 more.

2 mandates, that seriously drive up health costs. Seems like a reasonable request.