A friend told me about the website. I went, and I noticed that it did not list all the plans available to me elsewhere. It is also true, of course, that healrhcare.gov does not, as not all insurance companies are participating in the exchange. The best thing to do is (1) find out which insurance companies sell insurance in your state, and (2) go to their websites and shop and compare and (3) purchase directly from them (unless you are due a subsidy from the government, in which case your options are limited to what is on the exchange).