1. The headline number (106,185) is for people who went through the signup process on one of the the government health insurance exchanges and chose a plan between the Oct. 1 launch and Nov. 2. But this doesn’t mean that they necessarily paid for the plan, which is the traditional way of defining enrollment.

HHS’ way of measuring enrollment was undermined earlier Wednesday when Obama’s chief technology officer, Todd Park, conceded under questioning before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that if he went to amazon.com and put a product in a shopping cart without paying, it wouldn’t count as a sale. …

The bottom line is that the 106,185 number is not synonymous with actual enrollments, though the enrollment number is likely to be higher than the number of those who have fully completed the process and paid at this point.

Sebelius said that HHS had no plans to release a breakdown of how many actually paid.