Scalise to President Obama: Answer a few basic enrollment number questions

Washington, D.C. – Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise today issued the following statement regarding the Administration’s announcement that seven million Americans have signed up for health care coverage.

“A few basic questions must first be answered by the President in order for there to be any credibility to the latest enrollment figures,” Scalise said. “The Obama Administration has been quick to release intentionally vague enrollment figures when it suits them politically, but has:

• failed to provide data showing how many enrollees have actually made a premium payment or were previously uninsured.
• failed to indicate how many people lost the health care coverage they had and liked as a result of the President’s signature health care law.

Unless President Obama answers these specific and meaningful questions, his rosy projections of updated enrollment numbers will lack credibility and should be greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism.”