Put bluntly, it’s time to ditch the individual mandate that Americans have health insurance or pay a penalty—the most hotly debated aspect of the law. This week, the White House again delayed the deadline for signing up for some Americans—further evidence of the bill’s slipshod implementation.

Rather than penalize people for not having insurance, “Coburncare” offers incentives for people to get insured. The law could be rewritten in such a way that people could be protected from being dropped by their insurance company as long as they stayed insured. This is a vastly superior approach to what Obamacare requires and makes logical and practical sense.

By leaving the parameters of coverage to the state, Coburncare will take Washington committees out of the process. States, not federal regulators, oversee health care.

Further, Democrats should embrace a reform pushed for years by free-market advocates: allowing Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines, an important component of the new proposal.