Massachusetts: ~7,000 QHP selections in first 5 days

This may seem a bit anticlimactic after yesterday's "200,000 on Day One!" HealthCare.Gov leak, but every data point helps.

I've received official numbers from the Massachusetts Health Connector through Day Five (November 5th).

Unlike most states, the Massachuetts exchange also handles premium billing/payments themselves, so they have a more elaborate enrollment reporting system. However, I've confirmed the following breakout:

• 628: Current enrollees, plans selected
• 3,860: Current enrollees, plans selected/paid
• 445: Returning* enrollees, plans selected
• 215: Returning enrollees, plans selected/paid
• 1,375: New enrollees, plans selected
• 472: New enrollees, plans selected/paid

Total: 6,995 total plans selected, of which 4,547 are fully enrolled (i.e., 1st premium paid).

*"Returning enrollees" means someone who's already in the MA exchange system because they were previously enrolled in an exchange policy in the past but isn't currently enrolled in one. For instance, they might have been enrolled from 2015-2016, but then left the exchange for 2017 and is returning for 2018.

I can't really compare this number with my first MA data point last year (10,251) because that was as of Nov. 8th, but it sounds like MA is off to a pretty good start.