That is what I understood from the start. The option lies with the taxpayer not the IRS. Whether they had time to change the form or not I don’t know.
I think your wish (and mine) has come true since the option to ignore the question effectively nullifies the mandate. Our President has given us official permission to the tell the IRS to #@&! 0&&. (on this one thing)
So, this means obamacare will collapse MUCH faster than predicted. This is a good thing.
A lot of people may find out, as I did, that there is health care after health care insurance, and it is amazingly cheap.