Changed the wording to change the meaning.
- - Those subject to the individual mandate may lawfully forgo health insurance and pay higher taxes, or buy health insurance and pay lower taxes. The only thing they may not lawfully do is not buy health insurance and not pay the resulting tax. - -
Everything he calls a tax is actually called a FEE in the health care law.
He put the true face on the law. That it does raise taxes on the middle class and the poor to pay for health care for all. They just called them fees to get past objections in Congress.