Obama touts inflated Obamacare enrollment numbers

Published February 14, 2014 5:00am ET



We now have well over 3.5 million people who have signed up and are getting insurance through the marketplaces for the first time,” President Obama claimed at a speech to House Democrats on Friday. He added, “That does not count the close to 7 million folks who have signed up for Medicaid because of the law that you passed.”

On Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services claimed that 3.3 million individuals had enrolled in a private health care plan through Obama’s health care law through January, but those numbers were likely inflated.

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