Issa: Obama Administration Must Explain Padded ObamaCare Enrollment Figures

Statement

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today released the following statement on the Obama Administration's claim that exaggerated ObamaCare enrollment figures obscuring the fact that one million individuals dropped out of ObamaCare since May 2014 was just a "mistake".

"Faced with large numbers of Americans running for an exit from ObamaCare, instead of offering the public an accurate accounting, the Administration offered numbers that obscured and downplayed the number of dropouts. Now they're saying this was just a "mistake.' The claim that this was only accident stretches credulity. The Administration misreported ObamaCare's enrollment figures not once, but twice, and officials cautiously changed their statements from "health plans' to "MarketPlace coverage,'" the Chairman said.

"HHS must provide a clear and detailed account of who knew about this decision and when they knew it. This Administration still appears to be calling its ObamaCare transparency plan from the Jonathan Gruber playbook: dismissing the American public's right to know with the same deceptive arrogance that helped them pass the bill in the first place," the Chairman concluded.

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