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Just wanted to add that both were a big help and that my insurance is active again. Thanks to everyone who tried to help. I'll have to pay it forward somehow.

Fingers crossed!

Thanks so much, most appreciated. I'll take the first offer of help first and if that doesn't work I'll follow up with you.

Haha, just a typo and not a subconscious slip, I swear! :-)

There is a persistent error message on my 2016 profile on healthcare.gov after that button was clicked (despite it also showing it's active on that side of things). My understanding is that the bug is the integration point between the two. From past issues and what I've been told on this one, is that the only way things get fixed and made right is to have healthcare.gov retransmit the correct data/status. Cigna can't fix it on their own from their side. Thanks for the offer to help, didn't expect any action, just a post out of frustration. I'll shoot you and email.

Healthcare.gov is the absolute worst. They had a button "End coverage for 2017" I clicked it around the end of November because I chose a non-marketplace plan for 2017, and the end result of that click was Cigna my current marketplace insurer for 2016 received a transmission from them, and interpreted it incorrectly, which made my 2016 plan inactive and retroactively terminated me back to 08/31 despite having paid all my premiums and processed claims up until end of November.

Their escalation process is useless, 30 days to resolve (if I'm that lucky). Will try not to get injured in the meantime.

Glitches and data sync issues are unreal, this is not an isolated incident. Every year it's been something. 2014 I was on Covered California and had to take them to administrative court to resolve data and tax form issues (canceled then due to a move and it completely wiped out my 2014 enrollment). Then in 2015 on HealthCare.gov they had me enrolled in the same plan twice and the insurer wanted double the premiums until they could resolve it.

The Hackpad import on DB Notes works really well and they have an option to redirect all your old Hackpad urls to the newly imported notes, which is pretty nice. The only catch with Notes so far is there is no way to back them up / export them from the DB Notes interface.

I don't see Ryan Lochte in the list?!

This worked for me too, about an hour ago. So not just good luck it seems :-)

Ssh'ing from the gce web console seemed to make my instances reachable. Afterward ssh from terminal and web access worked.

It's great to see people are starting to realize that there are opportunities inland in America, especially if you are bootstrapping and want some extra breathing room cost wise.

I spent most of my time in America in NYC and SF (originally from Canada), but recently moved out to Dallas for much of the same reasons. Had started a company so I wasn't tied to SF for work anymore and the cost of living in Dallas where housing was 10x cheaper tempted me to take a risk and come out here, and I have no regrets. More space, lots of things to do tech wise and arts and culture wise, especially if you seek it out and are intentional about it.

Thanks!

Married, no kids. My wife is also my co-founder so it made employment logistics easy.