So, would you agree then that the bill was promoted and 'sold' to the American public based on a deliberate lie?
I would say that statements claiming the mandate is not a tax were a lie, but would disagree with the notion that the bill was promoted on that basis. The selling point of the bill was covering those without insurance and efforts to bend the cost curve.
Ok, no offense, but I have to call bullshit on that. The whole point of avoiding calling it at tax, indeed of Obama vehemently denying it publicly, was to deceive people who would have otherwise been opposed to the bill. I'll gladly join you in shaming those people for their gullibility, but the fact remains they were conned. And Obama and the Democrats in congress did the conning.