November 8, 2013 🟢 Minor

Falsely inflates cost of Delaware Obamacare enrollments

Trump tweeted "Congratulations to the $1B ObamaCare website on enrolling FOUR in Delaware. Cost to us - $4M." While the tweet correctly noted that Delaware had only enrolled four people at that point, the math claiming $4 million per person was misleading. The website's total cost was spread across all 50 states and millions of eventual enrollees, not just Delaware's initial signups. Trump's framing exaggerated the cost-per-enrollee to attack the program.

"Congratulations to the $1B ObamaCare website on enrolling FOUR in Delaware. Cost to us - $4M." — Twitter, November 8, 2013

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Offenses:
disinformation
Domains:
public-health governance
Tags:
#obamacare#healthcare#cost-claims