Hold Your Horses! Obamacare Enrollment Didn't Fall In February

Hold your horses -- Obamacare enrollment didn't fall in February. "The months HHS has been using for tabulation don't correspond precisely to the calendar, because of state reporting methods and where weekends fall. As it turns out, 'February' is actually February 2 through March 1. That's 28 days. 'January' is actually December 29 through February 1. That's 35 days. Plug in the numbers, and you'll see the average daily enrollment for January was 32,744 and for February it was 33,673. As you can see in the graph, the pace actually increased a bit. Among the very few who noticed were Charles Gaba of ACASingups.net and Sy Mukherjee of ThinkProgress. The more important question, of course, is what the numbers look like after March 31, when open enrollment ends." Jonathan Cohn in The New Republic.