Three Guys Built a Better Healthcare.gov

[Sunlei]

before you go to healthcare.gov, you can shop plans here on these persons website they built. Just place in your zipcode and check it out.

story-http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/11/three-guys-built-better-healthcaregov/71195/

HEALTH SHERPA WEBSITE

http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/

[Sunlei]

1. THANK YOU George Kalogeropoulos, Ning Liang and Michael Wasser

for doing something. President Obama should give you guys a big hug

[Mass]

2. No, they did not. What they did is interesting and useful, but it is far

from doing what healthcare.gov does.


May be it is the problem with healthcare.gov (they try to do too much online), but it is absurd to claim the two websites do the same thing.

[Sunlei]

3. what is good is it's easy to see what you will or will not pay & insurance co. contact info is there

people could just call the insurance co. & sign up and be done. have their health insurance and get their tax discount applied without even having to register on healthcare.gov.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

10. Nice Site...

I hope they get some advertising and can make it pay off for them. It doesn't do everything the the government site does, but if you're just shopping for quotes, it could hardly be any easier.

[Duckhunter935]

4. I do not think so

Good site but does it interface with the government databases and insurance companies? Can you sign up for coverage? Good browser but hardly as complex as the real thing to actually sign up for insurance.

[Sunlei]

5. yes, the insurance company phone number is there for you.

or go register with healthcare.gov

[Duckhunter935]

6. Yes just as I said

It is very easy to link a phone number. Much harder to interface with many different forms of databases used by the government and insurance companies to allow online one stop sign up. It may have been better to allow the browse function then link to the insurance sites but how the does the government verify your eligibility for subsidy amount.

[Sunlei]

7. the gov uses your social security number to check your yearly IRS file.

Your yearly IRS report says how much income you have.

[seabeckind]

8. Define "better"

I think what we have is 2 examples at opposite ends of the tech spectrum.

Kinda like a comparison between a top of the line Mercedes and a Nano.

Each can be said to be "better" than the other but they use a different yardstick.

[Sunlei]

9. always nice when anyone does something free :) here use the great Ca. website and my zipcode to

see how easy it is, to see how much your healthcare will be.


my kern county, California zipcode 93280. I don't live there now but considering it if/when global warming floods out texas coast.

https://www.coveredca.com/shopandcompare/

[Rstrstx]

11. There's another site I like better

It actually lists the plans available and how much they will cost after subsidies once you've input your state, county, age, income and tobacco status

http://www.valuepenguin.com/ppaca/exchanges/

It's an interesting site, they also write various articles about the ACA