WH Adviser: 7 Million Was Never Our Target Number for ObamaCare Enrollment

WELKER: “And Phil, I want to just talk to you about the numbers. Obviously the White House has been touting the fact that more than a million people have now enrolled in the federal marketplace, 850,000 through the state-run exchanges. Those numbers certainly show an uptick in enrollments, but still far short of what you were hoping for at this point. You were hoping for about 3 million people, I believe. Are you confident that you're going to be able to meet your target of getting 7 million people by the end of March? And is that still your target number?”
SCHILIRO: “Well, that was never our target number. That was a target that was put out by the Congressional Budget Office and has become the accepted number.”
WELKER: “Well Kathleen Sebelius has said 7 million people.”
SCHILIRO: “But that was because it came from the Congressional Budget Office and it had become an accepted number. There’s no magic to the 7 million. What there is magic to is that in the month of December a million Americans signed up for insurance. Not because they had to. They didn't face a penalty if they didn't. They signed up because they wanted insurance on January 1st."