What is it about President Obama, that he just cannot bring himself to use honest numbers when boasting about the Orwellian-named Affordable Care Act?

Even the left-leaning press feels compelled to call him out. The Washington Post, for example, dismantles his claim that expanding Medicaid has given “access to health care for the first time” to “close to 7 million Americans”:

“(Obama) seems to be falling into the same trap as other Democrats, and some reporters, by assuming that everyone in the Medicaid list is getting health insurance for the first time because of the Affordable Care Act. But that number is nowhere close to 7 million. It could be as low as 1.1 million (Avalere) or as high as 2.6 million (Gaba.) If one wanted to be generous, one could include people coming out of the woodwork, even though they would have been covered under the old law, but no one is really sure what that figure is.

“In any case, no matter how you slice it, it does not add up to 7 million.”

Four “Pinocchios,” the paper rates the president – that is, a total lie.

This leaves aside the question of whether it’s good that we’re putting millions more people onto a single-payer government-run program that’s steadily losing the participation of doctors. Even if you think that’s good, it’s not working out the way the president claims. Why can't the president be honest about that?