It’s really nice to have the media in your back pockets. The Obama regime said that 7 million people needed to be enrolled (and paid) for ObamaCARE by the end of March. As we approach March, the Obama regime claims 4 million have enrolled in ObamaCARE. That’s debatable as the number includes several hundreds of thousands of people who never paid one dime for coverage, or just selected a plan on the site and left it in their shopping cart. Even if there was 4 million people signing up for ObamaCARE as Obama claims, that would still be 3 million short of the goal needed by the end of March. But that didn’t stop Politico from lying, and changing the ObamaCARE target. Politico is now claiming ‘4 million down, 2 million to go.’ Politico actually writes that the Obama regime’s target for ObamaCARE enrollment by the end of March is only six million, not seven. When did we lose a million on the ObamaCARE target?
Or is it just some sort of Common Core math that Politico is using to total the number needed to reach the enrollment goals?
Four million down. Two million to go. Five weeks to get it done.
But the administration wants to boost those numbers to around 6 million before open enrollment season ends March 31. A strong March finish helps the White House put that rocky October rollout firmly behind it, give the health plans the customers needed to make the new insurance markets work and head toward the November midterms with some stories of success.
“We’re going to make a big push these last few weeks,” President Barack Obama said Tuesday evening, urging supporters to help friends and families sign up.“I can talk, my team can talk here in Washington, but it’s not going to make as much of a difference as if you are out there making the case.”
Still, stronger sign-up totals won’t tell the whole story. It will be weeks or months before we know how many people who signed up actually paid their premiums, how many are newly insured, how many are young, how many quickly start to run up big medical bills and, perhaps most important for the law’s long-term sustainability, how many Americans actually end up reasonably happy with their coverage.