Ask HN: Would it be possible to open-source healthcare.gov? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Would it be possible to open-source healthcare.gov?

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Post by thetylerhayes » Fri, Oct 11, 2013, 4:10 AM UTC

elviejo wrote: post #10

zekenie wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. Do you think anyone would contribute?

Yes for two reasons: 1. "Scratching your own itch". There are several hackers / freelancers that want to enroll in healthcare and want that website to work. 2. "Altruism". There are plenty of hackers that want better healthcare for the USA and would gladly help to make that happen. Even if they aren't from the USA.

This.

There are already so many hackers working on open source projects for the government, even healthcare in government, that there would be no shortage of willing helping hands.

Re: Ask HN: Would it be possible to open-source healthcare.gov?

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Post by doubt_me » Fri, Oct 11, 2013, 6:53 AM UTC

Ask the company who was contracted to build it

http://www.cgi.com/en

Re: Ask HN: Would it be possible to open-source healthcare.gov?

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Post by skram » Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 1:21 AM UTC

elviejo wrote: post #3

I was thinking the same... the source code for the portal is in fact open source: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov But the code for the marketplace isn't. I think if the marketplace was open bug fixing would be faster.

... and it's not even on github anymore. https://github.com/CMSgov