About 12.2 million Americans signed up for ObamaCare throughout the 2021 enrollment period, lacking the Obama administration’s projections, according to a study on Wednesday.
The disclosure in the Trump administration shows the numbers are also down in the 2021 enrollment period when 12.7 million people signed up for the healthcare plan, The Hill reported.
Former President Obama’s White House, which urged individuals to register throughout the enrollment drive that began Nov. 1 despite President Trump’s shocking election victory, had projected that 13.8 million would enroll.
Of those enrollees, 31 percent were new clients and 81 percent received a subsidy to lower their premiums, The Hill reported.
Democrats criticized Trump for trying to place a damper on signups when his administration pulled the plug on all ObamaCare outreach and advertising dads and moms prior to the enrollment period ended on Jan. 31.
The GOP-controlled House is now working on an agenda to repeal and replace Obama’s signature healthcare legislation, but it continues to be running into opposition from some Republican lawmakers who express it doesn’t go far enough.
They are clamoring for a full repeal, saying any revised plan's still an entitlement.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, trying to shore up support and sway skeptical Republicans, stressed on Wednesday that Trump had a submit writing the GOP measure.
“Obviously, the main components are staying intact. This really is something we wrote with President Trump. This really is something we wrote using the Senate committees. This is the plan we ran on all of this past year,” Ryan said on Fox Business Network.
He said he “feels very good where we’re at” with the legislation as it makes its way through the House.
“There exists a plan. We’re moving this plan of action and we’re making fine-tuning refinements for this plan as it goes with the legislative process – which is how all legislation works,” the Wisconsin Republican said.
He disputed that a full repeal of ObamaCare was a campaign pledge.
“The promise made to voters by everybody running for the House, Senate and president was we will repeal and replace,” he said.
