IRS " We are getting 80,000 ACA application hits a day"
How many people were enrolled via the ACA by 10/31?
Zero.
Enrollment doesn't happen until the first month premium is paid and always starts at the first of the month. Policies don't take effect until January 1st so there is little incentive to pay months ahead of time. The first real enrollment figures won't be in hand until the second week of January, and then only if someone asks every single insurance company in the marketplace, and they give the statistics. The ACA Marketplace website will never have actual enrollment figures.
Expect to see a lot of variance in the statistics, but the best source to date is a blogger by the name of brainwrap that annotates this spreadsheet. His numbers don't include the national exchange.
http://obamacaresignups.net/
But he has a link to what is probably the best true indicator of how far people are getting in the application process, hits at the IRS, both for verification and subsidy data requests.
If you open your account and if you get your ID verified then you will be asked if you want to check for a subsidy. If you hit that then the IRS gets a hit. This includes all of the exchanges so it really is the most reliable metric on how many people are getting deep into the application process.
Here is what the WP quotes the IRS saying:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/26/exclusive-the-feds-have-made-330000-obamacare-eligibility-determinations/
More than 330,000 people have managed to get deep enough into new government health insurance Web sites to learn how much financial assistance they will receive purchasing coverage, the Internal Revenue Service said Saturday.
The IRS said it has also received and responded to more than 1.3 million requests from the marketplace for personal data used to apply for Affordable Care Act programs, such as household income and family size.
The IRS said it is currently receiving about 80,000 such data requests each day. It is one of about a half-dozen agencies that send information to a federal data hub, along with the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration.
That is a pretty healthy number for a website that isn't working at all.
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They were spewing the RWNJ talking points and I let them go on until the trap was set. Then I spoke up and explained to them that, in fact, I have an account already. I was signed up in the first week. There aren't questions on there for financial disclosure and shopping ACA is like buying a printer, you can choose to compare the various programs against one another.
AND there's no rush. I have 5.5 months to enroll if I should choose.
I have a gentlemen's bet with one of them, that my new plan will beat my old plan. I had to chuckle when the guy challenged me. He said that he knows I'll come out on the losing end, probably by several hundreds of dollars a month, as if I didn't already know my outcome. I told him, I guarantee you're going to loose the bet. I've already been shopping the ACA and there are two plans that are at least as good as what I have AND they are cheaper. 
They wanted to change the subject. I was amazed they had not even double checked to see for themselves. Isn't that the first step in hedging your bet, to make sure you have a winner?
Dumb-asses!!