In the midst of a government shutdown, the ACA exchanges open to much fanfare and success. Well, actually, no they didn’t. CNN and MSNBC tried all day to get them to work and could not sign up on live television.
People browsing often couldn’t access the site or proceed through the process. They tried to blame this on traffic, but even ACA supporters have dismissed this canard.
Apparently it is impossible to compare these rates with rates you could have obtained because — well, because they say so. It’s not as if someone can’t say “I paid x over the last 3 years, and now I pay y,” but I digress.
The truth is that ACA has been designed to fail your average consumer and shift the cost burden to the young and healthy.