Keep It Simple, Stupid !!
Three guys from San Francisco have built it. Pulled 100% of the logic out of healthcare.gov and simplified the processing
Everything their site doesn't do, the insurance companies are going to do anyway. This includes verifying ID and income data for their contracts.
There was no profit motive. No scams. No contractors. No Wednesday night poker games with Federal Division salesmen.
Nothing but three good guys and their computers: Ning Liang, George Kalogeropoulos and Michael Wasser.
Query logic and filters pulled from the government's Healthcare.gov web site. Calculations for subsidies pulled from Healthcare.gov. But by doing only the basic mission, this one works.
http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/
I said in the first week of the recent bloodletting that this is a 120-day problem. Anything more than 120 days building www.healthcare.gov sets up failure.
Put HealthSherpa on a Sun 10K or any big "cloud" box or a typical Hadoop layout and you can handle 250,000 distinct customers an hour at a minimum. You come out of HealthSherpa in the insurance company systems -- where you belong -- with all the information they need to complete the contracting process.
Insurance companies will usually finish the process at call centers. Telephone is the best choice.
Keep It Simple, Stupid !!
Details on the who-what-where-how under the orange muffin.
