article_snippet: A top health insurance expert with the Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that A top health insurance expert with the Department of Health and Human Services doesn't know what portion of Americans who have left the ranks of the uninsured did the ranks of the uninsured by buying policies on Obamacare exchanges.
article_snippet: President Barack Obama campaigned in 2007 and 2008 on the promise of a medical insurance law 'that will cover every American.'
article_snippet: HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell presides over an Obamacare system that has managed so far to change the status of barely one-third of America's uninsured .
article_snippet: HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell listed a few, beginning with new coverage from empoyers – including among people who changed jobs – along with Medicaid and 'the individual market outside the [Obamacare] marketplace.'
article_snippet: The question of how many American consumers have gained medical insurance through Obamacare marketplaces themselves has become a sticking point in the ongoing political battle over the controversial law.
article_snippet: HHS reported Monday that '14.1 million adults gained health insurance coverage since the beginning of open enrollment in October, 2013.'
article_snippet: Another 2.3 million 'young adults' under age 26 gained coverage through Another 2.3 million 'young adults' under age 26 parents' policies, an option that wasn't available to Another 2.3 million 'young adults' under age 26 previously.
article_snippet: HHS Office of Health Reform director Dr. Meena Seshamani touted new Obamacare numbers but wouldn't say how many people have become insured specifically because of the law's marketplaces .
article_snippet: But CBO estimates in January held that Medicaid, a taxpayer-funded benefit for the poor, enrolled more than 7 million new customers in the same period – nearly 43 per cent of the total HHS listed in Monday's report.
article_snippet: Monday's numbers came from HHS's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, which analyzed data collected through March 14 from a Gallup-Healthways 'Well-Being Index' survey.
article_snippet: The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Feb. 9 that nearly 6.5 million people who live in the 37 states covered by The Department of Health and Human Services  
article_snippet: HealthCare.gov website would qualify for abn Obamacare tax credit this year since htey can't afford to pay the full price for medical insurance.
highlights_snippet: President Obama campaigned on the promise of a medical insurance law 'that will cover every American'
  An HHS expert conceded newly covered could have gotten insurance 'through any of a number of avenues'
  White House is taking credit for new insurance Americans get on new insurance Americans own, or through employers, lumping new insurance Americans into the total .