Here are five points:
1. This total is slightly down from last year’s figure, which hit 9.6 million new enrollees.
2. The 9.1 million people represent enrollees in the 39 states that use HealthCare.gov. The number therefore does not reflect the total signup across all 50 states.
3. The Trump administration said it will release more information on total enrollment in March 2017.
4. The Hill reports Democrats said the drop is partly due to the Trump administration eliminating ACA outreach ads in the weeks leading up to enrollment’s closing date.
5. In a statement, a HHS spokesperson said, “Obamacare has failed the American people, with one broken promise after another. As noted in the report today from [CMS], premiums in the ACA marketplace have increased 25 percent while the number of insurers has declined 28 percent over the past year.”
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