I used a state (Colorado) healthcare marketplace website when I was going to take a break between jobs for a couple of months, and I feel very violated by the whole process. I entered a bunch of information to the website, knowing that the data could be expected to be shared for quotes, but I got no quote. The information didn't just flow between systems, it was just sent directly to a bunch of individuals. Instead of getting anything useful from the website, I just got told that agents would contact me, and then literally hundreds of agents were calling and texting me at all hours of the day and night for weeks. I asked one of them how to get it to stop and they said it was impossible during the government shutdown.

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WillPostForFood 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Possible you got tricked into using a private site that buys the first google sponsored google result, and talks like it is the official Colorado site but is just lead gen?

https://i.imgur.com/d2fZlTc.png

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consumer451 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Welcome to the reality of the US federal government not even trying to do something like GDPR.

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paulryanrogers an hour ago | parent [-]

The dysfunction is intentional. Baby steps to rollback ACA. Every small inconvenience pushes voters closer to their side.

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teaearlgraycold an hour ago | parent [-]

So many things are intentionally broken. All of the complaints about illegal immigrants working on our farms, and yet no mention that we do have a migratory laborer visa - it's just the quota is way too low.

	▲	Amezarak 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		People complaining about illegal immigrants doing farm labor mostly don’t want you to simply give them paperwork making them legal, they want the pipeline of migrant labor restricted so labor prices are forced to rise enough to make the jobs worthwhile for citizens. I’ve noticed this is a common disconnect.