{"id":21942,"date":"2014-11-20T19:49:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T00:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21942"},"modified":"2014-11-20T19:49:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T00:49:55","slug":"hhs-caught-padding-obamacare-enrollment-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21942\/hhs-caught-padding-obamacare-enrollment-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Caught Padding ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is anything the Obama administration says about ObamaCare worth believing?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Obama administration said it erroneously calculated the number of people with health coverage under [ObamaCare], incorrectly adding 380,000 dental subscribers to raise the total above 7 million,\u201d reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-11-20\/obamacare-s-subscriber-rolls-include-unpublicized-dental-plans.html \" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation came to light thanks to diligent work by House Oversight Committee investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg quotes Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell as saying, \u201cThe mistake we made is unacceptable,\u201d but the news agency goes on to report HHS may have been intentionally misleading in its counts in the run-up to the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederal officials said in September they had 7.3 million people enrolled in coverage through new government-run insurance exchanges. They didn\u2019t distinguish between medical and dental plans, <em>breaking from previous practice without notice<\/em>.\u201d (Emphasis mine)<\/p>\n<p>Along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21900\/grubergate-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-jonathan-gruber-controversy-in-a-single-two-minute-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grubergate deceptions<\/a>, it\u2019s hard to believe that HHS did anything other the deliberately fudge the numbers to help ObamaCare (barely) meet a previous CBO projection. Falling below that threshold would surely have been an embarrassment to the Obama administration, so someone at HHS just changed the rules so the home team could win.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2014\/11\/19\/caught-camera-obama-called-exec-immigration-action-illegal-25-times\" target=\"_blank\">the president&#8217;s approach to immigration<\/a>, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is anything the Obama administration says about ObamaCare worth believing? \u201cThe Obama administration said it erroneously calculated the number of people with health coverage under [ObamaCare], incorrectly adding 380,000 dental subscribers to raise the total above 7 million,\u201d reports Bloomberg. The revelation came to light thanks to diligent work by House Oversight Committee investigators. Bloomberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4073,4440,4614,3308,186,35],"class_list":["post-21942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4073","tag-enrollment","tag-gruber","tag-health","tag-hhs","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21942"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21952,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21942\/revisions\/21952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}