The Obama administration dramatically moved Obamacare's second-year goalposts on Monday, saying that it expected no more than 9.9 million Americans to be enrolled in medical insurance through a government-managed system by the end of March. The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan organization that advises federal legislators, assumed that the number would be a much higher 13 million in April, when it built the financial projections under-girding the law's implementation. Now the number could be as low as nine million. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Monday that her goal is 9.1 million. That number could go lower still, if less than 83 per cent of current Obamacare enrollees – 5.9 million people in all – renew their coverage in 2015.
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Congressional Budget Office projected 13 million signups by March 31, 2015
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Now HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell says her goal is 9.1 million, but that number depends on keeping 5.9 million of last year's enrollees
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About 112,000 people lost coverage since the end of the last open enrollment period because they couldn't prove they were US citizens or legal residents
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Administration's own projections could fall apart if more than 17 per cent of 2013-2014 enrollees drop their coverage in year two
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Burwell said Monday that the White House will win the second Supreme Court challenge to Obamacare
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A repeal is 'not something that this administration will let happen' - Burwell
But new data show 'there is considerable uncertainty that a large shift will occur over the new two years,' according to a new @placeholder report.