ACA ‘horror stories’ keep crumbling

[Dj13Francis]

20. I've got a real one.

So I'm a healthy guy. Maybe a bit overweight, but otherwise healthy. I have no pre-existing conditions (other than the aforementioned overweight thing) and I take no medications. And my health insurance - my crappy health insurance with a $5000 deductible went from $180 to $230/mo as of Jan 1. So I thought, "Fuck those assholes, I'm going to do some shopping around!" Well... I signed up on there. And unfortunately I entered my phone number. I didn't get any quotes online but I was apparently signed up to get calls. So the first call I got came after about 10 minutes. And dude proceeds to tell me that he can enroll me in this program - for $202 a month, with a zero deductible, and that rate will stay constant until I retire. And all I needed to do to enroll in this health insurance was to give them a credit card number right now and for the low price of $175.00 I'd be able to enroll in this program. Well... I knew that it was complete bullshit, and I told the guy that was an amazing deal and I'd love to hear more about it and I'd love for them to send me some documentation about their company and whatnot... Well dude hung up on me. Scam averted, but how many people aren't as alert as me? I'd imagine a lot of people fall for that. So, do you think anyone is going to do anything to stop these scammers? Naaah nobody is going to do anything. And one more thing... Since then, there hasn't been a day that I've received less than 8 calls from various people trying to hook me up with health insurance (which is itself a rip off) or trying to just straight up rip me off. Yay.