Updated Obamacare enrollment figure dips to 8.7 million

The number represented a slight decline from the 2017 enrollment figure when about 9.2 million people signed up for health insurance policies from private insurers on the HealthCare.gov platform.It was slightly lower than the 8.8 million figure given last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).Proponents of Obamacare, as former President Barack Obama's healthcare law is known, said the 2018 figure was relatively strong given President Donald Trump slashed the program's adve