People sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act. (Credit: Getty/Joe Raedle) I was supposed to be watching TV with my friends. Instead I was on my phone. I wasn’t on Instagram or Snapchat. I was texting a woman who lives across the country. She was explaining the details of her health insurance. For the past few weeks, health care has been a regular interruption in my life as I’ve interviewed strangers about their health insurance for a series focused on people shopping the state and federal exchanges.