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I rather hope the bill stands or falls as a whole. The individual mandate is one of the lynchpins of the bill. Without it, the bans on annual limits and discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions that are coming in 2014 will probably force premiums to increase considerably. Admittedly there's plenty of good stuff in the act beside all that, but I fear it's still better to lose everything in the bill than it is to lose the individual mandate but not the things that need the individual mandate to be feasible.