Carney On Number Of ObamaCare Enrollees: ‘We Don’t Have That Data’

Carney On Number Of ObamaCare Enrollees: 'We Don't Have That Data' (RealClearPolitics)

QUESTION: And just very quickly, a housekeeping question on health care reform. I know that the President said that there were more than a million visitors by 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning, and there’s been a lot of talk about visitors to the website. But isn’t enrollees really the better metric for gauging as to how well that is doing? And do we have any of those numbers yet?

JAY CARNEY: Here is what we know. First, in the two days since the marketplaces opened, 7 million people have visited healthcare.gov, and that’s unique visitors. That is more than the number of people who visit SouthwestAirlines.com in a month -- in a month. That’s a pretty popular site. So as a measure of interest, it is substantial.