I checked obamacare out when it first went on line. My yearly income was $100 or $150.00 too much for the subsidized health care, which would have cost about $100.00 a month if I made $200.00 a year less.
The cheapest bronze plan would have cost me $1200.00 a month with a $24,000.00 deductible for myself and my wife! It was valid in only 5 states (U.S. of A) and only in the county I lived in, in Pennsylvania.
I would have had to ask permission to see, any, health care provider if I did not need emergency, life saving, medical treatment! If I did not ask permission first, before I went to a medical professional, then I would have to pay 100% of the bill! The subsidized plan would have given me better coverage, but not much better!
Good thing I kept my health insurance plan that I had before I retired. It was about $475.00 a month in 2010 and is almost $800.00 a month now. It covers me anywhere I go in the U.S. of A. and anywhere in the world. Deductible has gone up a lot though. Yearly fee increases were minimal before obamacare, monthly costs increasing from $295.00 to $475.00 in 23 years, or only about $180.00 a month. The increase in monthly costs since obamacare went into effect are a little over $300.00 a month! I wonder if I am one of the people subsidizing the $100.00 a month obamacare plan!
The obamacare website was sending me 3 - 4 emails a week this year, urging me to sign up for their service.
Back in 2019, I was in the hospital for surgery. There was a pre-prep waiting room where patients were on a gurney waiting to go into the pre-surgery room for administration of anesthesia. I heard two guys take a man in the next stall in to pre-surgery. One guy asked the man, where is your pillow? The man said, they didn't give me one. The guy said, oh, you must be on the obamacare health plan! Man said yes. Me, I had three pillows on my gurney!