Tonight my son and I got him enrolled through the Affordable Care Act, but we had to do it over the telephone. Our experience was a bit more frustrating than what YaNevaNo reports in this diary, which I urge you to read for comparison:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
We live in Texas, so we had to try to go through the national web site. If we'd created an account for my son months ago, as YaNevaNo did, we might have been able to finish things on the internet. As it was, I spent about 50 minutes listening to pleasant music on hold, and the application and enrollment was just another 25 minutes.