BCBSA reports 1.7M Off-Exchange QHPs NOT including March

And there we have it: Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post reports that BCBSA (the family of Blue Cross companies, as well as Anthem, Regeant, etc) confirms 1.7 million ACA-compliant QHPs sold OFF-exchangenationally from October 1st through March 1st (that's right, the rest of March isn't included; for comparison, March made up 40%of the exchange QHP total for the open enrollment period):

Newsy: BlueCrossBlueShield companies sold 1.7 million ACA-compliant policies OFF-exchange between 10/1-3/1. #obamacare

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 3, 2014

@charles_gaba @Cripipper no link. I had been asking for the data and I got it the old fashioned way--a phone call.

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 3, 2014