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So 55 separate goverment contractors trying to integrate incredibly nitpicky set of data and it does not work? I wonder why. Maybe first they should have fixed

So 55 separate goverment contractors trying to integrate incredibly nitpicky set of data and it does not work? I wonder why. Maybe first they should have fixed the process. You can't build nationwide websites same way you build physical things.

sp332 13y ago
You can't "fix the process". The website has to talk to hundreds of corporations, and dozens of federal and state agencies.
- ape4 13y ago
  They could tell/encourage all the agencies to follow one schema/API
  - DougWebb 13y ago
    They'd balk if you did that. But they could have been told "Create a wrapper API that adheres to this standard, or your product will not be available on the new national Healthcare site." Most of the insurance companies would have scrambled to not be left out, because if they missed the Oct 1 date they could have lost out on a huge pool of new business for a year. This wouldn't work for credit agencies and State systems, but that's a much smaller pool of systems to integrate with.
    - ape4 13y ago
      Yes, that's what I meant. Push the work to the insurance companies.