Sebelius Denies 7 Million Was ObamaCare's Target

by JASmius

Right down the ol' totalitarian memory hole:

[Commissar] of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that the administration never had a 7 million enrollment target for Obamacare, backtracking on comments she made last year volunteering that figure.

"First of all, seven million was not the administration. That was a CBO, Congressional Budget Office prediction when the bill was first signed," Sebelius said in an interview with HuffPost Live.

"I'm not quite sure where they even got their numbers. Their numbers are all over the board, and the vice president has looked and said it may be closer to 5 to 6."

That's what Cruella insists now.  That is not, however, what she was bragging last year:

The comments appear to contradict what she told NBC News the day before the launch of the troubled healthcare site last fall when she said that "success," in her opinion, would be having 7 million Americans enrolled in the Obamacare exchanges by the end of March.

"I think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of March 2014," Sebelius told NBC's Nancy Snyderman on September 30th.

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Last June Sebelius also volunteered the figure, telling reporters, "We're hopeful that 7 million is a realistic target."

Heaven forfend that the Regime just admits that they've fallen way short of the seven million enrollee figure they assured us would be reached by now.  As forgiving as the American people are, and as many Affirmative Action mulligans as they're willing to give to O, I wouldn't think it'd be any big deal, and could add some impetus to their appeals for patience.

Instead, their latest claim that 4 million people have now signed up for ObamaCare just looks like another gross exaggeration that nobody has any reason to believe and everybody has reason to believe will be quietly "revised" downward sometime next month.  Either that or it'll be part of the next unconstitutional Executive deferral decree.

One could almost forget what honesty in public servants is like.  But one would have to first remember what public servants are like, as opposed to the Obamunist overseers under which we languish in captivity.  And a refresher is not in the offing.