The "7.3 Million"

The administration finally released the Obamacare enrollment count this week.

Like everything else about their scorekeeping we got a number. Just one number. A number that was conveniently better than we had expected. And, we got no real context for the number or any of the back-up information.

I thought this quote in a Politico article was telling:

The figure is complex to unravel. The number
SOURCE: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review – Read entire story here.

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