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STATIC site content. Not the part being hammered by people signing up. People keep confusing the two.

The plans should be static site content. You shouldn't have to initiate the sign-up process just to see what's available.

Seeing what's available without reliable information on your actual costs (including subsidies) doesn't accomplish much.

Premiums vary based on region, age, and smoking status. It's not so much information that you couldn't handle it with static pages.

Subsidy is based on income, and it's simple enough that NPR and others have already build subsidy calculators. Put that in javascript and you've still got static pages, running calculations client-side.

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