President Obama recently declared the national debate on the Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare — to be officially over because 7.1 million people have supposedly enrolled in the program. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius updated the enrollment figure Thursday to 7.5 million. Neither Obama nor Sebelius, however, have revealed how many of those enrollees have actually paid their first bill, nor have they released detailed data on the demographics of the enrollees. That means the 7.5 million figure may be credible and maybe it’s not, it’s impossible for the rest of us to know with any confidence.

That fact hasn’t stopped Obama and his fellow Democrats from taking the so-called “victory lap” and declaring the Obamacare debate settled. If this were the Indy 500, Obama would be wheeling into the winner’s circle to accept the Borg-Warner Trophy and drink a little milk, even though most of the race was still to be run.