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Pretzel_Warrior

(8,361 posts)
Wed Nov 20, 2013, 04:10 PM Nov 2013

One thing to remember: the drudgery of shopping for health insurance [View all]

I was listening to NPR this morning (yes, that hated right wing fortress ) and they discussed a person who quite happily only took an hour to get through the entire process. Just think of that. Only if things go exceedingly well, a person will need to invest an hour or more to enter all relevant information to be presented with valid choices of insurance and subsidies they are eligible for and then choose a plan.

This isn't like shopping on eBay or Amazon. There is no great joy for most of us even with relatively straight forward enrollment processes and choices through our employers. And yet, I can't even comprehend deciding NOT to be covered just to save the monthly premium.

So....even when technical issues are all ironed out, not many are going to be jumping for joy regarding actual process of reviewing plans on exchanges and choosing one.

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