The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon

#1

Post by shire » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 6:31 AM UTC

The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon
healthcare.gov

Re: The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon

#2

Post by jerrya » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 7:49 AM UTC

That's actually a very nice website, and quadruply so for being a government created website.

Re: The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon

#3

Post by joshmn » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 8:13 AM UTC

Nice government website? Impossible.

Nice government website with an API? Get out.

https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/

Re: The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon

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Post by cheald » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 8:16 AM UTC

jerrya wrote: post #2

That's actually a very nice website, and quadruply so for being a government created website.

Of course, my question is how much we paid for it.

Re: The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon

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Post by dangrossman » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 8:19 AM UTC

This site's source is also on Github, and they've pledged to keep the repository up-to-date with the site -- https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov

Re: The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon

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Post by jerrya » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 8:30 AM UTC

cheald wrote: post #4

jerrya wrote: post #2

That's actually a very nice website, and quadruply so for being a government created website.

Of course, my question is how much we paid for it.

Well, I was trying not to be negative, because often HN is accused of just being 99% negativity, but yeah, I was thinking just that.

Philip Greenspun wrote a post about that sometime back.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/09/15/californias-st...

Re: The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon

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Post by BadassFractal » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 8:41 AM UTC

jerrya wrote: post #6

cheald wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course, my question is how much we paid for it.

Well, I was trying not to be negative, because often HN is accused of just being 99% negativity, but yeah, I was thinking just that. Philip Greenspun wrote a post about that sometime back. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/09/15/californias-st...

Ouch.. do they make breakdowns of that big sum available anywhere?

Re: The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon

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Post by BadassFractal » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 8:43 AM UTC

jerrya wrote: post #6

cheald wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course, my question is how much we paid for it.

Well, I was trying not to be negative, because often HN is accused of just being 99% negativity, but yeah, I was thinking just that. Philip Greenspun wrote a post about that sometime back. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/09/15/californias-st...

On the negativity note, at which point is it no longer just applying critical thinking, but instead pure cynicism?

Re: The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon

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Post by laurenstill » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 8:49 AM UTC

joshmn wrote: post #3

Nice government website? Impossible. Nice government website with an API? Get out. https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/

There's a huge initiative for open API use in healthcare. Take a look into BlueButton if you're interested.

http://blue-button.github.io/blue-button-plus-pull/

Re: The Health Insurance Marketplace is coming soon

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Post by mjn » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 8:52 AM UTC

This looks a lot nicer than the websites I had to deal with last time I bought individual insurance on the open market (2010). Will be interested to see how the presentation of plan information is when it becomes available, since that was the second-worst part of the old experience [1]. Hopefully they'll get it right and lay out the choices in some kind of understandable and transparent way.

[1] The worst part was the scammy "comparison" websites, who presented themselves as third-party information aggregators, but often turned out to be stealth affiliate-marketing fronts for a small subset of companies.