The absolute WORST part of Healthcare.gov...?

[ScreamingMeemie]

Shopping companies that denied me time after time. Luckily, I gave up before I knocked on Humana's door, so I can enroll with them without hating them. But forget it BC/BS Texas; you, with your cutesy ads every football game commercial break. Forget it Aetna... forget it.

(it also helps that Humana had the best plans down here)

[libdem4life]

1. Congratulations. I hope we hear lots of these stories and the "internet site apocalypse" will end.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. I haven't had any issues since the first week.

I've been able to log in several times.

[libdem4life]

13. Seems the "disaster" hyperventilating has subsided, as well, and we're hearing real

success numbers.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. "The absolute WORST part of Healthcare.gov...?"

No LOLcats.

Seriosuly, in this day and age if you don't have LOLcats just pack it the fuck up and go home.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. "Went looking for the GOP alternative to ObamaCare and found it."

"It sucked."

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. "Can I get a subsidy here already?"

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Truth.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

14. "I say, ol' chap"

"Have you enrolled yet?

"That's a good fellow."

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Honestly, that little guy doesn't even look real...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

18. "I haz a sad."

"Healthcare.guvz resetted mah passwurdz."

[Nuclear Unicorn]

20. "Iz okay"

"Pre-existing conditions no longer excluded!"

[Squinch]

4. So how did you do? Was it priced well? Are you happy?

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I am very happy and very surprised.

Coverage for both of us for less than 200/month (I make about 45K)
$25 copays
1800 deductible
$13 prescriptions (this one is amazing because I'll be able to afford my maintenance drugs and treatments)

[Squinch]

19. Yay! I'm happy for you!

[Zorra]

6. The worst part of Healthcare.gov is not even getting the chance to shop for insurance

because of all the insane glitches in the system.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. I haven't had that issue since week one.

I hope you are able to log in soon. The more time you have to shop, the better off you are.

(no, I'm not one of those people who are going to tell you that you have until December because I know a lot of us--myself included--have to budget this)

Thank you.

[Nye Bevan]

7. If you think that the cost of your medical care will exceed the premiums that you pay,

then you should enroll with the company you hate the most, knowing that you will be reducing their profits.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Hadn't thought of it like that. LOL

However, one thing I did notice was that BC/BS has no participating physicians within 80 miles of my Houston home. Funny, eh?

[Warpy]

16. That's my problem, thinking about giving a dime of my money to those SOBs who refused

to insure me all those years out of the fear I'd cost them something. I ran the numbers a couple of years ago and at what BCBS (the only one who'd insure me) was going to charge, I've saved into the six figures by being uninsured so long. I also saved on a lot of aggravation trying to persuade bloodless bean counters that doctors, tests and drugs were necessary for someone with a painful and sometimes fatal disease.

Now I have Medicare and am looking at the same bastards lined up to sell me Medigap insurance or enroll me in one of those bogus HMOs. Since my docs are in multiple "networks," this is just not practical so I'll do without and hope I get cheap diseases.

[magical thyme]

17. worse than that would be the ones that did take your insurance money, and then left you to die

anyway, because your 20% body weight loss (from 110 to 84 in 2 months) night sweats, chronic insomnia (lucky to sleep 6 hours/week), recurring golfball size lump under your armpit, etc, were "all in your head" and it might cost them a dime to run a cbc, discover you were septic and pay for antibiotics. At least that's "all" it was, so my dentist could take one look at me, put me on antibiotics and save my life, versus, say hodgkins...