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I went to the Covered California website. I wanted to see how much the plans cost and what the deductibles were. I could not get any information regarding any prices or deductibles unless I gave my name, e-mail address, phone number, etc. first. I chose not to give them anything. If any business would not allow me to look at the merchandise unless I gave them all of my personal information upfront I would walk out of the store.

The Washington site will let you look at rates, and they are bad. The premiums, pre-subsidy, look pretty normal. Then you look at the deductibles and you realized that bronze and silver plans start looking like catastrophic care, with maternity and mental coverage. I think many families will find themselves paying premiums and not seeing a dime paid by insurance.

The best silver plan I saw still had a $2500 individual/$5000 family deductible. Figure the kids get one well check a year, and everybody sees the doctor maybe three times a year when they get sick. A family of four doesn't get there. Maybe if mom goes in for a normal female checkup and a mammogram?

I went to the Covered California website. I wanted to see how much the plans cost and what the deductibles were. I could not get any information regarding any prices or deductibles unless I gave my name, e-mail address, phone number, etc. first. I chose not to give them anything. If any business would not allow me to look at the merchandise unless I gave them all of my personal information upfront I would walk out of the store.

Hello, my name is Charles Adobo. My late uncle, the honorable Cecil DeMildew was the Finance Minister of Nigeria until his escape plane was shot down as it was about to cross into Upper Volta airspace. As a result, I can no longer afford to live on the Riviera and must earn my living as an ObamaCare Navigator.

So let's get started with the easy signup process. I will need your name, email address, phone number, social security number, and, most importantly, bank account number. Please be assured that the information you provide will be strictly private before being shared with a plethora of law enforcement agencies, the IRS, the NSA, and DNC.

You were smart. I tried about thirty times to set up an user account at HealthCare.gov. When I finally got through, it took about two hours to enter all the information for my family. (Way too many web pages for the quantity of data required and extremely slow response time.) Then I realized that I really shouldn't include my adult student kids because they are no longer dependents. Then I tried to delete them, but the stupid system won't allow that. I just wanted to get prices and see next steps anyway, so I left the info as it was. Then Experian asked me questions to confirm my identity. Evidently, Experian knows some stuff about me that just ain't so, because I flunked their bogus test.

So, thirty attempts and at least five hours and I still don't know what is being offered or what it costs.

ObamaCare = FAIL!

The two most common responses from the ObamaCare site are:

Please be patient. The website is busy serving other people.

and

System unavailable.

I suspect that is how the ER will respond a few years from now when a sixty-year-old presents himself with complaints of severe chest pain. Unless, of course, he's a politician, retired politician, or government employee.

https://www.coveredca.com/fieldcalc/

I don’t know where you went but I didn’t have to input any of that info to find out the cheapest policy for me and hubby is $1197 per month.