Real ObamaCare Numbers, Not 7.1 Million

A triumphant President Barack Obama declared Tuesday his signature medical insurance overhaul a success, saying it has made America’s health care system ‘a lot better’ in a Rose Garden press conference.
But buried in the 7.1 million enrollments he announced in a heavily staged appearance is a more unsettling reality.
Numbers from a RAND Corporation study that has been kept under wraps suggest that barely 858,000 previously uninsured Americans – nowhere near 7.1 million – have paid for new policies and joined the ranks of the insured by Monday night.

…The Affordable Care Act carried with it the promise of covering ‘every American,’ and it appears to have fallen tremendously short.
…The unpublished RAND study – only the Los Angeles Times has seen it – found that just 23 per cent of new enrollees had no insurance before signing up.
And of those newly insured Americans, just 53 per cent have paid their first month’s premiums.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/obamacare/the-real-obamacare-sign-up-numbers-only-858000-newly-insured-americans-have-paid-their-obamacare-premiums/