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There are tons of regulations for the whole country and each state. Then you have to deal with all insurers. I bet it took hundreds of man years just to get a h
by Ididntdothis 7y ago
There are tons of regulations for the whole country and each state. Then you have to deal with all insurers. I bet it took hundreds of man years just to get a handle on all the requirements. This is not some photo sharing site where you can make the rules. The rules are already set and you have to figure them out. Basically the tech is the easy part but understanding the requirements is very hard. This applies to a lot of big systems. It’s hard to create a coherent system around convoluted rules.
- umvi 7y agoAnd yet, the complaints about the website were not about the lack of regulatory compliance, dealing with insurers, etc., but of basic technical issues - logging in, navigating the site, "glitches".
- Ididntdothis 7y agoCorrect. They certainly could have done better but my point was that this is not something four guys in a basement can nail together.
- umvi 7y agoWell, I still think 4 guys in a basement could have come up with a better framework to build off of even without the regulatory compliance part. It's like the company Simplifile - small company in Utah. They have only a handful of developers that build actual website front/backend infrastructure, and then they have a team of specialists whose job it is to become expert in all of the county laws across the USA and create requirements out of them.