Jim McDermott actually said...

To say the employer mandate is connected to that really is a ruse to get us into a big argument about bringing the whole program down.

In fact, the figures showed that they actually increased their coverage during that period of time.

That probably explains why Governor Romney, a noted conservative Republican, put the individual mandate into the program in Massachusetts.

It seems they have discovered in themselves a repressed populism they reserve for special occasions when it serves their no tax/no regulatio...