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HealthSherpa, a YC startup launched right here on HN and built on top of the government’s backend, now enrolls more people in ACA coverage than Healthcare.gov.

Great work guys! This could be very useful for us. Some feedback for our use case: 1. We’re in healthcare, so data privacy / security and HIPAA compliance are a must. One way to li…

As a Greek person I love it when people use our ordinary words as fancy words!

FWIW I remember this question being posed about our batch (Summer 2012) which had ~80 companies in it.

Just a clarification: federal judges (like the one in this article) are appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress. They are not elected and do not have constituents in t…

For context, the title is a reference to the play, "The Lion in Winter"

Interestingly enough, that's also a strong argument for the death penalty. We cede the right of private retribution and the state assumes that responsibility, carrying it out in a …

The more titillating version would be to crawl Backpage or similar successor service for phone numbers of escorts and correlate that with known phone numbers of public figures such…

This is a slippery slope for Google, and raises questions about their handling of ads for other industries where questionably ethical and/or illegal ads are run on Google. As an ex…

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I'm George, cofounder of HealthSherpa (YC S'12). Plans cost the same, whether purchased on our site or through healthcare.gov.

Dan- one of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act is that 64yr olds can't pay more than 3x the premiums of 20-somethings. Prior to the ACA the difference was on the order of 8-…

Congrats to the Kamcord team! Looking forward to watching you guys dominate the space.

In the past I couldn't be bothered to deal with recording / saving my "performances" but in the 1-2 games I play where Kamcord is supported I now basically record everything cause …

+1. I really like the intuitive interface and the speed with which I can conduct analysis. It would be great to have a library of feeds for each user that is automatically curated …