Obamacare's Subscriber Rolls Include Unpublicized Dental Plans

Obamacare's Subscriber Rolls Include Unpublicized Dental Plans
In just a few weeks, millions of people will be heading to the federal site HealthCare.gov to shop for medical insurance when a new open-enrollment period begins. If some of those people wind up at HealthCare.com instead, well, Jeff Smedsrud is fine with that. Pictured, HealthCare.gov.
In just a few weeks, millions of people will be heading to the federal site HealthCare.gov to shop for medical insurance when a new open-enrollment period begins. If some of those people wind up at HealthCare.com instead, well, Jeff Smedsrud is fine with that. Pictured, HealthCare.gov.

The Obama administration included as many as 400,000 dental plans in a number it reported for enrollments under the Affordable Care Act, an unpublicized detail that helped surpass a goal for 7 million sign-ups.

Without the dental plans, the federal government would have had 6.97 million people with medical insurance under the law known as Obamacare, investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform committee calculated, using data they obtained from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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