Fiction writer John Green does an experiment: He plans to apply for insurance through the exchanges and then through a private insurer. Watch the video above.
Green tries to sign up for Obamacare and is met with the many errors and glitches, asked to type in his name repeatedly and, well, as he puts it: “I’m a little bit, I’m a little bit frustrated.”
But that’s before applying for plain ole health insurance through a private insurer, where he finds he must share his and his family’s entire medical history for the last decade. His conclusion?
“Even with all the server errors, it was more than twice as fast to apply under the Affordable Care Act private exchanges than it was to apply in the old way. . . . And as far as I can tell it has gotten dramatically better, even though the government could stand to buy some new servers.”
(Although, to be fair, he did not finish signing up for insurance on either site, nor pick a package from the exchanges.)
Thought this was funny? Click here to see his surprisingly thoughtful dissection of the healthcare cost of care blame game.
