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About 7.3 million people had paid for medical coverage and were enrolled in health plans sold through new Obamacare insurance exchanges on Aug. 15, the administration said.
The figure, announced by Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is 9 percent lower than the government’s estimate in May that 8 million had signed up for Obamacare plans. That estimate didn’t reflect how many people had paid their premiums and were actually covered by health insurance. The number has been long sought by Republican lawmakers who oppose the law.
Tavenner released the new figure at a hearing yesterday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in Washington, where Republicans opposed to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act peppered her with questions about the security of the insurance website and the destruction of e-mails she wrote before the site opened for business.
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