It’s October 1, the day when unicorns frolic across the land because the “Affordable” Care Act is finally here. Finally.\n<\/p>\n
One Twitter user in California successfully navigated that state’s Obamacare website and was able to get an actual quote. Alas, the plans weren’t quite as affordable as promised.<\/p>\n
No hope. And no change to spare:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CAAmyO\/status\/384926401909886976\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CAAmyO\/status\/384927135804043264\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CAAmyO\/status\/384927950979620864\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CAAmyO\/status\/384928514329169921\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CAAmyO\/status\/384932772017500160\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CAAmyO\/status\/384934292968599553\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CAAmyO\/status\/384938771063390209\n
Several other Twitter users had similar reactions:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CrookedCountyIL\/status\/384939835900706816\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/tonybalogna\/status\/384927023950344192\n
On the (questionably) bright side, the above tweets show that a few people were able to actually access Obamacare’s glitch-ridden health insurance exchange websites<\/a>.<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/01\/im-going-to-have-to-cook-some-meth-affordable-care-plans-not-so-affordable\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CAAmyO\/status\/384926072849969152 It’s October 1, the day when unicorns frolic across the land because the “Affordable” Care Act is finally here. Finally. One Twitter user in California successfully navigated that state’s Obamacare website and was able to get an actual quote. Alas, the plans weren’t quite as affordable as promised. No hope. And no change to … Continue reading ‘Going to have to cook some meth’: ‘Affordable care’ plans not so affordable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/14397837696228-sticker-shock.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}