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I talked about this before.The Healthcare.gov website asks for the number of certificate of citizenship (or whatever you call it for a naturalized citizen like me). I have been a citizen since 2000 and never once asked for that number. So what does that tell about the government? It is not like they are still using paper records and get tired of numerous retrieval of information. The government cannot extract one unique number through another unique number and both of them generated by it? As if this is not enough by itself, you have the demand for it suddenly appear like this. So what happened to all the checking on the data before this? They ask to be helped with this information as if the rest of the data is held by the government of France. The government whose job is keeping the data, wants me to help it with my record keeping for a paper it itself generated and gave to me 16 years ago and was never asked for it anywhere before this. This reminds me of dependency on external papers in governments like that of Saddam's Iraq.    

And if this still not ridiculous enough, get this, they also want the alien number. At least when I exclude applications at the level of green card and citizenship, I don't remember being ever asked for this number other than once after coming here to make the social security card in 1992.    

Although I may do like past years and buy my insurance externally, this is still a big joke.