Although it's being reported in many places the experience is real for me now. Despite first day website hassles I now have my SERIOUS savings and a better than current plan lined up for next year. Quotable details below squigly. Oh - and screw you GOP.
Here's my details. I own a business that is a corporation which is me and me alone. I do pretty well. I am lucky. I am 45 and am happy to be a non-smoker in excellent health.
My insurance has soared to $495/month and the plan has become worse and worse over the 5 years I have had it I have gone from $20 office visit copay to $50. An MRI for a sports injury last year cost me $500 out of pocket. My out of pocket max is $7500/yr as a single male.
It compares to at best the "silver" plan - more like half between bronze and silver. Silver would cost me $316/month.
The Platinum plan has zero deductible, $150 MRI, $20 copay and a $4000/yr out of pocket. This is wildly better coverage than I have now and it costs $439/month
I don't get a subsidy because I make enough money not to. I didn't expect to.
To the liars in the GOP - I hope this destroys you. I am saving money and getting better coverage. Screw you.
12:38 AM PT: Since I posted this I also posted my results on my FB wall and blew up a storm of feedback and spent 2 hours explaining to friends how to get the data they are looking for. Answered streams of questions and plugged family stats for them into the exchange website. Helped them to understand how to get the results for their fams and admitted in a couple of cases that they would be better off staying in their grandfathered plans that they now have - but - whereas very often I stay away from "politics" on FB - in this case I threw out a shingle as "let me help you check and see" and I actually convinced a Republican friend that her family would be waaaaay better off with ObamaCare. As such - I recommend presenting it as a way to spread the information. My extra 2 cents from the experience.
1:40 PM PT: Someone suggested putting a link up for the CA exchange - thanks for the suggestion - here's the link to the actual calculator start page - https://www.coveredca.com/...
BTW - the website is sadly kind of hard to use - they need to fix that - but I suggest first of all to use Chrome Browser if you can - I use Firefox all of the time and it works really poorly on the site in my windows machine.
1:50 PM PT: Footnote - I was just going to record a screencast of how to make the site work, once again as was yesterday around this time, the site is not loading the pages and hanging once you try to get a quote. I get it - I'm in this industry and i understand how unexpected massive traffic causes problems. I would suggest coming back later at night - that's when it worked for me.