ACA: They should have segregated the 'shoppers' from the 'buyers'

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14. The point is that

people aren't going to sign up for something that they haven't checked out. If the government is stupid enough (which I firmly believe they are capable of being) to believe that Jack and Jill Citizen are going to buy a health insurance policy without seeing what that policy provides them, then the government needs to get their collective head screwed on straight.

All this talk of "going live" is great - I agree, they had a mandate to make it happen by 1 October. But their failure to anticipate that people would want to see what they are being told to buy is most certainly not a bell and whistle. It is a fundamental part of the process.

What you're saying is that the government - despite have a LOT of time to design this system - failed to create a workable tool. With that I agree.