pulled out of its keister

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.



...Others were already insured, including millions who lost coverage when their existing policies were suddenly cancelled because they didn't meet Obamacare's strict minimum requirements.



...The president took no questions from reporters, but celebrated the end of a rocky six-month open-enrollment period by taking pot shots at Republicans who have opposed the law from the beginning as a government-run seizure of one-seventh of the U.S. economy.



'The debate over repealing this law is over,' he insisted. 'The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.'



The president also chided conservatives 'who have based their entire political agenda on repealing it,' and praised congressional Democrats for their partisan passage of the law without a single GOP vote.

Gee, 858,000 is a far cry from the "7.1 million" signup number that the White Houseestimated as having signed up by the March 31st deadline.Even worse? 858,000 is an infinitesimally small fraction of the "46 million"uninsured Americans that Obamacare was supposed to address.Yes, it's true: Democrats destroyed the American health care system for nothing As Aleister observes