This is good. GOP leaders add penalty for lapsed coverage to health bill-

No different than letting any insurance lapse-costs a great deal more for quite  while after one does that.

The idea of penalties with ACA was good, except that the penalties needed to be higher than one years worth of premiums and needed to be collected like any other IRS Due bill, not based on a tax refund only with no Due Bill Balance carried forward to the next year. That was the mistake.