Colorado: CONFIRMED: 90% QHPs PAID (OK, 89.9% anyway...)

Yes, I'm quoted extensively in this CNBC piece by Dan Mangan, and yes, I rip on the HHS Dept. quite a bit in it (towards the end) for their continuing failure to issue monthly ACA enrollment reports during the off season. However, in terms of actual new enrollment data, there's a bit earlier in the story which caught my eye:

...at least 10 of those [state-run] exchanges have disclosed, at some point, how many people have paid their first month's premiums.

For example, a spokeswoman for Colorado's exchange, in a statement to CNBC, said: "As of June, we received data from the health insurance carriers that show 89.9 percent of Coloradans who purchased private health insurance through Connect for Health Colorado paid their first-month premium. There is some lag in data, so we anticipate that percentage may actually be higher ... we obtain this data from each of our 17 carriers and anticipate more complete information as we move forward."

Until now, I had Colorado down with my standard "90% estimated" payment rate. It appears that I was off by exactly 0.1% in their case, or 136 people as of the end of June. My bad.