Out-of-control health care costs just have not been addressed. I do not have insurance. I went to the doctor for a Pap smear in January (first one in about 20 years). I got a bill from the lab for $375. That was just the lab bill, not the bill for the doctor's office. I asked for a self-pay discount and it was reduced to $300. Lab work for a Pap smear costing $300?!! Surely, there is a cheaper way to do this.I was going to sign up for the Affordable Care Act. I went through the process, plugging in numbers for my son and myself. For the two of us, it was going to cost a couple of hundred a month and the deductible for me was going to be $5000. I didn't think we could do that. I could have gone back and plugged in numbers just for insurance for myself, but my brain was fried. Anyway, when I tried to sign up (the last possible day for 2015 coverage), I hit that computer glitch. I called over the phone, got my call dropped, tried again. After giving all the figures to the phone rep, she explained that she was getting the same error message as I had gotten and to try back later. (Of course, they extended the deadline because of the computer glitch, but at that point, my patience was expended, and I said, Forget it.)