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Saw this being discussed on the news, congrats on the quick release! The simplicity of your design should put the contractors to shame who tried to build someth

Saw this being discussed on the news, congrats on the quick release! The simplicity of your design should put the contractors to shame who tried to build something that ultimately couldn't work properly.

ewoodrich 13y ago
This has been said before on different threads, but the primary issues plaguing healthcare.gov are not comparing premiums or comparing plans, but instead determining eligibility for subsidies, verifying income through state and federal database, and interoperability with the insurers' databases to actually enroll for a plan. Health Sherpa seems to provide a quick and easy way to compare premiums by region, but lacks detailed information such as deductibles, and specific provider information. Certainly helpful, but by no means a functional replacement for the requirements of healthcare.gov. (notice clicking "Apply" sends you to the home page of the insurer, and gives a phone number).
- mattmcknight 13y ago
  Actually, that is one of primary issues plaguing healthcare.gov. The government intentionally changed the requirements to prevent you from browsing the prices of plans. This caused huge amounts of unnecessary traffic on the identity verification process while people were unable to perform even the first step of shopping. The current system actually contains this information, and probably had a nice view of it, but the misguided people in charge don't want us to see it, despite it all being nicely available in JSON at data.healthcare.gov.
  - ewoodrich 13y ago
    Window shopping was restored a month ago, and a few weeks after the rollout. [1] I would not consider that to be a problem still plaguing the site, as poor of a decision as it may have been originally. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/11/want-evidence-feds-are-trying-to-fix-healthcare-gov-here-it-is/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/11/w...

ewoodrich 13y ago

This has been said before on different threads, but the primary issues plaguing healthcare.gov are not comparing premiums or comparing plans, but instead determining eligibility for subsidies, verifying income through state and federal database, and interoperability with the insurers' databases to actually enroll for a plan. Health Sherpa seems to provide a quick and easy way to compare premiums by region, but lacks detailed information such as deductibles, and specific provider information. Certainly helpful, but by no means a functional replacement for the requirements of healthcare.gov. (notice clicking "Apply" sends you to the home page of the insurer, and gives a phone number).

mattmcknight 13y ago
Actually, that is one of primary issues plaguing healthcare.gov. The government intentionally changed the requirements to prevent you from browsing the prices of plans. This caused huge amounts of unnecessary traffic on the identity verification process while people were unable to perform even the first step of shopping. The current system actually contains this information, and probably had a nice view of it, but the misguided people in charge don't want us to see it, despite it all being nicely available in JSON at data.healthcare.gov.
- ewoodrich 13y ago
  Window shopping was restored a month ago, and a few weeks after the rollout. [1] I would not consider that to be a problem still plaguing the site, as poor of a decision as it may have been originally. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/11/want-evidence-feds-are-trying-to-fix-healthcare-gov-here-it-is/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/11/w...