I logged onto healthcare.gov this morning just to see how the system is working. This is my third time that I’ve played with the website in the past month. I don’t need health insurance right now, but I’m curious what options are like and how the system is working.

I got further into the website then I did in the past. I was able to log in (the first time I couldn’t do that). I didn’t get caught up in some programming errors in the the third screen (that happened the second time). So, progress.

But I had to plug in the same information multiple times. I had to plug in all sorts of personal information and got bored and logged off. I just wanted to browse. I should be able to plug in my income and ages of the family members to get a ballpark figure without first giving the name of my neice, social security number, and phone number.

It asked for information that a lot of people might not have, like an e-mail account. Then I had to go to my e-mail account and verify and return to the website. Not a big deal for me, but that might have tripped up my dad.

So, not enough progress.