that this is a, the affordable care act, bhaum caobama care, i comprehensive packe. you can't have an individual mandate without the employer mandate, without the, you know, all this stuff is supposed to work together because how are we going to know if someone is, in fact, eligible for an individual mandate subsidy if you don't have an employer mandate in place, for example? and there's no clause, to my knowledge, in this very large bill, comprehensive bill, dealing with 12% of our nation's economy and growing at a rapid rate. there's no clause that allows you to separate out particular pieces. so i think that in the interest of comity, in the interest of transparency, and in the interest of better law making, this would have been better handled here in a public forum, which is why i think it's important we as a congress, we as a body sanction the delay of the employer mandate. >> you actually made me anticipate, actually, my next question, which, again, i put to both of you. because i have to tell you, if i accepted that this was constitutional and wise, i would st