Signing up for Obamacare has become a part-time job for Susan Lane. Starting the minute healthcare.gov went live October 1, Lane spent five to six hours a day trying to make the site work before she finally managed to enroll two weeks later. She faced error messages and blank screens. The green twirly "please wait" circle literally haunted her dreams. "There were days that I would just completely lose my temper with it," she remembers. "I'd want to just slam my laptop down." But Lane kept with it because she needs insurance -- badly. She suffers from depression, sleep apnea and thyroid problems, and her daughter has Asperger's syndrome.
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Susan Lane made it her mission to sign up on healthcare.gov
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Lane and her family badly needed insurance
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But will young, healthy people go to such trouble?
Their medical bills totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars and ate up the family's life savings, and the @placeholder declared bankruptcy earlier this year.