So this would have been eight days into the rollout and they were averaging around 77 enrollees per day. To put this in perspective, the White House was predicting 500,000 for the first month, which equates to an average of over 16,000 per day.

Via ABC News:

More than 175 pages of internal Obama administration memos, obtained by the House Oversight Committee, released Tuesday and reviewed by ABC News, present the most detailed account yet of the troubled rollout of the federal health insurance exchange, HealthCare.gov. […]

It’s unclear is how many people succeeded in enrolling in new insurance plans through the online portal during October. As of Oct. 8, according to the memos, it was “700+ enrollments.”

As for paper applications: More than 11,000 have been received, but only 4,000 had been entered into the system as of Oct. 27. Of those, it’s not clear how many are completed and applicants officially enrolled.

Bottom line: it’s hard to see how the first-month totals come anywhere close to 500,000, or possibly even 50,000.