The Department of Health and Human Services released a lot of new data the day before (2016-01-11) showing how the ACA helped support entrepreneurs.

True: HHS (or ASPE, an office within HHS) published data or a report on or about 2016-01-11 showing how the Affordable Care Act supported entrepreneurs or self-employed people, for example data on Marketplace enrollees who are small business owners or self-employed. Mostly true: such an HHS release exists but was published a day or two from 2016-01-11, or was modest in size rather than 'a lot' of data. Mixed: the release came from another agency, or was not specifically about entrepreneurs but HHS data was cited that way. Mostly false: the related HHS data came out weeks away from that date, or did not address entrepreneurship. False: the evidence shows no such HHS release around that time, for example HHS's press release archive for January 2016 contains nothing like it.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Addendum to the Health Insurance Marketplaces 2016 Open Enrollment Period: January Enrollment Report ASPE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · 6 January 2016

   “This Addendum contains detailed State-level tables highlighting cumulative enrollment-related information for the Health Insurance Marketplaces (Marketplaces) during the the first part of the 2016 Open Enrollment period for all 50 states and the District of Columbia (11-1-15 to 12-26-15).”

2. E2 Policy & Regulation ASPE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

   “The dataset provides the total number of Qualified Health Plan selections by ZIP Code for the 38 states that use the HealthCare.gov platform, including the Federally-facilitated Marketplace, State Partnership Marketplaces and supported State-based Marketplaces, during the Marketplace open enrollment period to date (November 1, 2015 – January 9, 2016).”

3. E3 Department of Health and Human Services HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) · 7 January 2016

   “This report provides interim data on enrollment-related activity in the individual market Marketplaces during the first part of the 2016 Open Enrollment Period (OEP) for all 50 states”

4. E4 Department of Health and Human Services HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) · 21 January 2016

   “This report focuses on the health plan choices made by returning consumers and the premiums for the plans they selected.”

5. E5 Report Small Business Majority · 16 October 2018

   “Additionally, a report from early 2017 by the U.S. Department of the Treasury found the ACA marketplaces have been instrumental in helping the small business community access coverage.”

6. E6 Report Small Business Majority · 16 October 2018

   “According to the report, 1.4 million marketplace consumers were self-employed, small business owners or both, meaning 1 in 5 marketplace users was a small business owner or self-employed in 2014.”

E1 and E3 are ASPE Marketplace enrollment reports dated 6–7 January 2016, and E4 is a report on returning consumers dated 21 January 2016. None of the quoted passages from these reports mentions entrepreneurs or self-employed people. E2 describes an HHS dataset of plan selections by ZIP code through 9 January 2016, but it has no release date and does not cover entrepreneurship. E5 and E6 refer to a Treasury report from early 2017, not an HHS release around 11 January 2016. None of the evidence shows that a release like this was or was not published on or around that date.