Obamacare enrollment data comes under scrutiny

It took a junior congressional staffer about 20 minutes to discover what the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it didn't know about its own health exchange enrollment data. Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, told Congress in September that 7.3 million people had enrolled in coverage through Obamacare. What she did not say — and Obama administration officials say they did not realize — was that nearly 400,000 of them were standalone dental plans. That was revealed only after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asked for the data to back up those numbers.