(CNN) -- President Barack Obama needs to learn a simple lesson: Saying something doesn't make it true. Though the President has claimed victory touting 8 million "enrollments" under his health care law, Americans cannot and will not wipe their memories clear of the botched rollout and continual failings of Obamacare. Democrats have sustained their tactic of telling everyone the health care law is working, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Perhaps if they say it enough, their reasoning goes, it will become true. Well, Obama can have his own opinions and he can even assert falsehoods as truth, but he can't conjure fact.
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy: Selling of Obamacare omits the reality that not everyone is paying
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Eight million "enrollees" doesn't equal 8 million paid customers, he says
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House Oversight Committee: Only 67% of enrollees had paid first month's premium
This negative view of @placeholder persists even upon the assumption, parroted by many in the media, that the 8 million enrollment figure is accurate.