Here's Sunday's SR editorial:

For Republicans, Obamacare is not a pre-existing condition they can live with.

But if they stick to their pledges to keep covering would-be insurance enrollees who are already sick, and young adults clinging to their parents’ plan, whatever cure they adopt for the Affordable Care Act could hurt real bad.

President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan say those two provisions of the ACA will be retained in whatever replacement plan they come up with. Less clear is how they will cover the cost without the unpopular mandates that have required healthy individuals to buy insurance, or pay tax penalties for not doing so.

Insurance companies are imposing hefty premium increases, or have stopped selling policies, in states where they are not enrolling enough healthy residents to offset the costs of carrying the severely or chronically ill, whose care is a significant cost driver.

Washington has a history with regulations that required insurers to cover pre-existing conditions. They were a disaster. More here.

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