District of Columbia: 18.6K QHPs thru 1/05; 3.2% ahead y/y with 3 weeks left to #GetCovered!

Someone pointed me towards an official ACA Open Enrollment report for the DC Health Link from a few days ago. There's a bunch of demographic data broken out, but the bottom line is:

• 18,611 people have selected individual market Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) for 2020
• Officially, this is down over 5% vs. last year...however...
• ...the final official total for the 2019 Open Enrollment Period was only 18,035 due to some last-minute clerical error corrections and/or purging of last-minute cancellations.

...which means that at least for the moment, DC is up 3.2% year over year.

Remember, DC residents can still #GetCovered through the end of January for coverage starting in either February or March, so this number should increase a bit more yet.