As she explained here, doing the piece-meal, pass-the-popular-stuff approach wouldn’t be so easy: “I heard somebody say this morning, we’ll just do preexisting conditions. Well, you can’t do preexisting conditions unless you do a mandate and you can’t do a mandate if you can’t make insurance affordable [ME: that’s where the subsidies, and therefore the Medicare cuts and tax increases come in]. . . . It’s just all inter-related.”