As we lumber into a new year, HHS is touting its enrollment numbers.

(Is it me or does this administration love dropping news over holidays? You ever get the feeling they're trying to slip one past us?)

While most news outlets took Burwell's bait and simply echoed her proclamation that more than 7 million people have signed up for health care through the exchanges, few focused on just how many of them are getting that health care at greatly reduced costs because of the taxpayer-funded subsidies.

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