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October 10, 2013 09:00 am GMT

It Takes Nearly 2 Hours Longer to Get Typical Insurance vs. Obamacare

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YouTube star, Vlogbrother and author John Green has become somewhat of an expert on the American health care system, producing explainers on the need for health care reform and the reason American health care is so expensive.

So, a week after the launch of the Affordable Care Act’s private insurance exchanges — better known as Obamacare — Green decided to put the new system to the test.

He spent an afternoon applying for health insurance in two different ways: First by using Obamacare’s new private exchanges and then “the old way,” through an insurance company

With healthcare.gov drowning under five times the traffic it was prepared for, it took Green 40 minutes and several tries to get his application accepted Read more...

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