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

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Michelle Jaworski for The Daily Dot 2013-10-10 05:00:38 UTC

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.

But wait until you see what happened when he applied for traditional insurance:

Image: YouTube VlogBrothers

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Topics: affordable care act, Entertainment, health care, Health & Fitness, obamacare, Politics, U.S., Video, vlogbrothers, YouTube

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