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I have posted numerous times in the last few years that the current admin can make up anything and are never challenged or really fact-checked by the press. Whenever the Admin needs some positive information, they make it up. Many FR threads call it Obama’s fun-with-numbers. They just pull them out of their rears.

Need 7% unemployment? No problem, wallah! Look - unemployment just dropped.

Need 1 million or 7.1 million signees to Obamacare? No problem wallah! Look - so many people are rushing to sign up that they broke the website.

The compliant media not only cover for the Obama people, they help clarify the talkingpoints

They do. They really work hard to refine the message no matter how pretzel-like they must twist logic to do it. It’s a peculiar skillset as applied by the apparatchik at the New York Times.

“NEEDED: Skilled disinformation officers. Former KGB encouraged to apply! Knowledge of AP stylebook helpful.”

Here is a good article on Obamacare written by one of the two public members of the SS and Medicare Trustees. It is devastating.

The Unfolding Fiscal Disaster Behind ACA Enrollment Figures By Charles Blahous

Earlier this month there was tremendous press attention to new data indicating that enrollment in the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s health insurance exchanges had surpassed 7 million. The White House took a victory lap while much of the press, desperate to write something positive after months of reporting on website glitches and insurance plan cancellations, characterized the milestone as good political news for ACA supporters. Our national discussion, however, is missing the truly significant story here; what is unfolding before our eyes is a colossal fiscal disaster, poised to haunt legislators and taxpayers for decades to come.

It is quite possible that the ACA is shaping up as the greatest act of fiscal irresponsibility ever committed by federal legislators. Nothing immediately comes to mind as comparable to it. Certainly no tax legislation is, because tax rates rise and fall frequently, such that one Congress’s tax cut can be (and often is) undone by a later tax increase. The same is true for legislation affecting appropriated spending programs. But the ACA is a commitment to permanently subsidize comprehensive health insurance for millions who could not otherwise afford it, which the federal government has no viable plan to finance. Moreover, experience shows that it is very difficult to scale back such spending once large numbers of Americans have been made dependent on it. "