The White House Set A Crucial Goal For ObamaCare, And They Missed It. Now They’re Acting Like It Doesn’t Exist

Remember yesterday’s report that the percentage of ObamaCare enrollees who are under the age of 35 (just 24%) was even worse than the “worst-case scenario?”

The White House is now backing away from its own goal of 38% youth enrollment, and is instead trying to defend the abysmal 24% number.

“We are already at that stage of preliminary sustainability with three months left to go,” one HHS official said.

So much for their own goals. “Administration officials are lowering their own standards for success—ditching targets they set or embraced, and redefining success as anything that’s good enough to avoid a total collapse,” the National Journal wrote this morning.

We agree. Although we aren’t surprised. For months, the Obama Administration has been moving the ObamaCare goal posts as it sees fit, delaying key deadlines and ignoring staggering numbers as ObamaCare inches towards implosion. When will the Democrats finally admit what we all know to be true, that ObamaCare is a disaster?

From the National Journal:

But, once again, administration officials are lowering their own standards for success—ditching targets they set or embraced, and redefining success as anything that’s good enough to avoid a total collapse. It was the White House that set the initial target of 38 percent enrollment for young adults. But officials wouldn’t stand by that figure this week.

“There’s a difference between that number and what’s required for a sustainable market,” the senior administration official said.

The White House has already disavowed its self-identified “target” for overall enrollment: 7 million people in the first year. In downplaying that number, the White House and HHS have argued that the age mix is more important than overall enrollment—which it is, from a policy perspective.

But just as officials haven’t released a new target for overall enrollment, they’re also lowering expectations for the mix of old and young enrollees. The White House said Monday that it had cleared the first bar—a good enough mix for a sustainable market. Is there another goal, more ambitious than avoiding disaster?