President Obama is fond of touting the "success" of Obamacare in getting individuals insured.  But the figures the president uses to justify his boasting are based on amended projections from the Congressional Budget Office. Every year, the CBO would change the targets for insuring Americans, always reducing the projected number.  But when trying to sell Obamacare to Congress and the people, they were singing a different tune. Weekly Standard: Three years ago, on the eve of Obamacare’s implementation, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that President Obama's centerpiece legislation would result in an average of 201 million people having private health insurance in any given month of 2016. Now that 2016 is here, the CBO says that just 177 million people, on average, will have private health insurance in any given month of this year—a shortfall of 24 million people. Indeed, based on the CBO's own numbers, it seems...(Read Full Post)