[dragonwriter]

The federal exchanges (for which healthcare.gov is the portal) were never intended to be a good choice (or even to have to exist at all), they were in the law as a minimal fallback to be applied for states that failed to implement their own exchangees.

[SwellJoe]

Yes, my "home" state is Texas, which has been extraordinarily regressive on ACA. It might be time for me to consider making another state "home".