I had in another thread contemplated how the ACA would have went if rolled out in 1968 (pre-internet). It went something like this: Some insurance salesman would show up cold-calling or at your door, and just show you that you could get the same plan you have for less money (whatever it happened to be) and you would say "sure!". Then , as it always was in those days, the company (end-target of ACA) would do the paperwork after asking a few questions you didn't quite understand and it would be a deal.

I question the use of the internet for this purpose at all and if it is used, a week time-frame is better since there are some ridiculous errors in just the forms part (part 1) of applying for ACA, so give it a week for those to all be fool-proofed and yeah, you may be onto something.

Would have been a fat white dude knocking on your door, briefly regaling you with tales of anvils, pianos and frogs falling on your head, your daughter being gang-raped while your wife was beheaded. You know, typical insurance agent talk, and then he'd tell you it would cost you from 2 bucks/mo. -> 20/mo and shove a couple of War & Peace sized pamphlets in your meaty fist.

You'd slam back some JD, have a 24 oz. rare steak, talk to the missus about it, and then you'd dump your six times as expensive insurance and the fat dude would do all the work after you'd signed on the dotted line. Internet my ass jugalo..

It would have been the perfect deal (completely without any computers/internet). Thinking of that as a starting point and caca like Facebook and Twitter, Windows, MacOS , even Linux, and well, it becomes kind of obvious that computers ain't your friend and neither is the internet. For posting bullshit like this, however, it is great!