They start with a faulty 2016 baseline that predicts that 18 million people will be covered by Obamacare in 2017, when the people who are actually in charge of tracking Obamacare enrollments, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services,report that the number will be between 10 and 11 million. On the generous side, CBO only missed the correct number of enrollees by 7 million people – oops.
The CMS report unequivocally states, “The average monthly effectuated enrollment in 2016 was 10 million individuals. While effectuated enrollment was over 10.8 million in March of 2016, enrollment had dropped to 9.1 million by December of 2016.” | More…
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