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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThree Guys Built a Better Healthcare.gov (And probably do not back Republicans)
unlike the builders of Healthcare.gov
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/11/three-guys-built-better-healthcaregov/71195/
Meet the Health Sherpa, the website HealthCare.gov probably should have been. George Kalogeropoulos, Ning Liang and Michael Wasser saw the troubled launch and decided they could do a better health care enrolment website better than the government and, by golly, they succeeded. The Health Sherpa makes it ridiculously easy for anyone to compare health care plans covered under Obamacare in 34 states. (They left out the 16 states with existing marketplace sites, though it seems support for those states is coming soon.) The result is a simple, beautiful, remarkably responsive website that anyone could use.
Step-by-step instructions to using the Health Sherpa at the link:
ON EDIT: Seems the link doesn't work. Go to Google and search The Health Sherpa and click the link. It should work.
Buddha_of_Wisdom
(373 posts)Still the same problem with the Healthcare.gov ...
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)got right on.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)but I can't get THEIR site to work either. When I enter my zip code, I get the following message:
We're sorry, but something went wrong.
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)Works from Google, not from link for some reason.
Mass
(27,315 posts)browsing site.
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)n/t
Mass
(27,315 posts)TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)does nothing to decrease traffic congestion in MA.
Sorry, but the Intertubes don't work that way either.
Mass
(27,315 posts)(a regional bottleneck for this website?)
No traffic congestion here. The only website I have problem with is this one.
tridim
(45,358 posts)The complexity is in the hardware, scalability and third-party hooks.
Most web developers could build a pretty front end ACA site as these guys have and call it done. It isn't.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)That's the stuff right there. I seriously doubt that the healthsherpa can actually enroll you in a plan, where the dot gov site can, if it's working.
I agree that talking to many insurance companies increases the complexity tremendously, especially if the gov can't publish a standard to which the ins companies have to code.
It's not a good idea to design SOA by committee, and I'm pretty sure the gov required SOA for this because SOA is the latest buzzword that was gonna save the gubmint IT.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)I posted a link with the original headline for informational purposes. News is not commentary.
Sienna86
(2,149 posts)Edited to add that I tried the site and it did work. It may be useful for folks to use to explore what is available while the ACA website is revised.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)for "Questionable content"....