Three Guys Built a Better Healthcare.gov (And probably do not back Republicans)

[TalkingDog]

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]

1. It's already overloaded.

Still the same problem with the Healthcare.gov ...

[TalkingDog]

3. I had no problems.

got right on.

[SoCalNative]

2. Yeah..

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]

4. For some reason the link worn't work but do a Google search and click on the Sherpa.com link

Works from Google, not from link for some reason.

[Mass]

5. I did the google search and it still does not work. In addition, healthcare.gov is a lot more than a

browsing site.

[TalkingDog]

6. Interesting. May be a regional bottleneck. I still have no issues accessing the site.

n/t

[Mass]

8. Sorry, I tried with a zip code in MS (I live in MA) and it does not work either.

[TalkingDog]

10. Um... saying you are driving your car in MS when you are driving your car in MA

does nothing to decrease traffic congestion in MA.

Sorry, but the Intertubes don't work that way either.

[Mass]

12. OK, I missed your point and it makes no sense at all anyway.

(a regional bottleneck for this website?)

No traffic congestion here. The only website I have problem with is this one.

[tridim]

7. IMO the ACA website is simple as well.

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]

15. Third party hooks

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]

9. Slam it with 50,000 users at once, then we'll talk.

[TalkingDog]

11. I have a panty dewadding website, if you are interested.

I posted a link with the original headline for informational purposes. News is not commentary.

[Sienna86]

13. Hoping this link works

http://www.thehealthsherpa.com

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]

14. Blocked from "giant evil student loan servicing company" that I work for ...

for "Questionable content"....