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<p>Cohn <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116990/obamacare-february-didnt-slow-daily-average-rose-28-day-month">discovers</a> that the latest Obamacare <a href="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/03/12/obamacares-monthly-check-up-2/">enrollment data</a> is being misreported:</p>
<blockquote><p>The facts are right but the interpretation is not. 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 <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/sites/default/files/u18524/slide1_9.jpg">graph</a>, the pace actually <em>increased </em>a bit. Among the very few who noticed were <a href="http://acasignups.net/14/03/11/february-hhs-enrollment-report-released-943k-qhps-4242m-total">Charles Gaba</a> of ACASingups.net and <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/03/11/3392331/obamacare-enrollments-surpass-42-million-in-february/">Sy Mukherjee</a> of ThinkProgress.</p></blockquote>
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