Nighttime Must-Read: Megan McArdle: Republicans Are Making Obamacare Harder to Repeal

…is not going to get [Republicans] any closer to repealing Obamacare…. If they actually succeeded in getting this bill passed… they… further entrench the 2010 health-care bill…. A weaker employer mandate will push more people onto the exchanges. Many of those people would be receiving subsidies. The more people who receive subsidies, the harder repeal of the whole law will be…. It’s hard to see why Republicans want to push more people into that part of the system, and hasten the sclerosis that makes programs so hard to kill or change once they have accumulated a lot of users. We haven’t even discussed the extra cost of providing subsidies to millions more people. Republicans seem to like taking votes against Obamacare so much that they’ll vote for anything that undoes what Democrats put in place–even if that thing costs a bunch of money, and takes them further from their stated goal of repealing the whole bill. They need a better hobby…