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.

If you are going to cover everybody in this room, you have to have everybody in here paying into the program, on some level.

They have decided to use this delay, which will not hinder the rest of implementation, to target a much more important provision of the Affordable Care Act, that is the individual mandate.

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

My Republican colleagues appear very upset by this decision despite its support by the business community.

Confusion is the greatest way to kill something. My distinguished Chairman tries to confuse.

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.

Repeal and replace is a great way to tell voters what they want to hear.

It strikes me that the issue here is basically not about the delay because the businesses asked for the delay and the Government gave it to them.

Thank you for being willing to be the Director of the IRS.