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With a few late nights, Ning Liang, George Kalogeropoulos and Michael Wasser built "thehealthsherpa.com," (http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/) a two-week-old website that solves one of the biggest problems with the government's site.
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"They got it completely backwards in terms of what people want up front," said Liang. He added: "They want prices and benefits, so that they could make the decision."
Liang showed CBS News how it worked. "You come to our website and you put in your zip code -- in this case a California zip code. You hit 'find plans,' and you immediately see the exchange plans that are available for that zip code."
They have plenty of experience working at places like Twitter and Microsoft before setting out to build their own Internet companies. But this project is a public service.
As Ning Liang showed CBS News correspondent John Blackstone how HealthSherpa worked on a computer screen, a person enters their area code and then will see the exchange plans available for that zip code.
/ CBS News
"There was no thought of, 'How do we make money this time?'" said Wasser. "It was like, 'This is a problem that we know we can solve in a really short period of time. So let's just do it.'"
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CBS News looked at the team's website Thursday and pointed out that the tax subsidy wasn't in there, which is supposed to be one of the most complicated parts of the HealthCare.gov site. But as Liang explained: "Yes, we added this last night...the subsidy calculation is fairly complicated, but it wasn't too bad."
You can't actually enroll on the HealthSherpa site, but they do provide contact information for companies offering the plans. Users who find a plan they like can go directly to the insurance companies without ever using HealthCare.gov.
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"They got it completely backwards in terms of what people want up front," said Liang. He added: "They want prices and benefits, so that they could make the decision."
Isn't that what Obama wanted them to hide a month before the release date?
HOLY-MOLY.....$566 per month for the cheapest and $1176 per month for the best.
Thank god sweet thing is still working and got us covered thru work.
You can afford it, you damn one percenter!That was for just "ME"......I guess the wife and kid will need to get on welfare and Medicaid.
That was for just "ME"......I guess the wife and kid will need to get on welfare and Medicaid.
Hell, I don't need to eat anyway.
Isn't that what Obama wanted them to hide a month before the release date?
Wow....
Over 900 bucks a month for the Bronze plan for just me and my wife.
That is seriously ****ed up.
What a riot...prexisting people don't get hosed...well unless you include being lucky enough to get old as a preexisting condition--at which point one's insurance premium is double what it is for a 40 year old with ZERO subsidies...I even brought down the income at low at 10 grand for a 65 year old(I doubt many people could pay all they need to on that with no house payent, etc...still 160 a month for the cheapest gold--something arguably an older person would need because of the coverage to save from going bankrupt if they get ill or need surgery. ****ing ridiculous...I'm guessing the thinking here is that there won't be enough 65 year olds to out vote the 30 year old masses with children who are getting big subsidies.
Of course, I don't know how Medicare works...I admit that. I would guess you need a supplemental plan--is it not required? How on earth with older peeps do that with the numbers I saw at that site? I assume these would act as those required supplemental plans? Or is that not required and most older folks thenwould now be on crappy ass Medicare only and at the whim of the gov for healthcare completely?
I do that AARP will make a fortune selling supplemental insurance to Medicare.
yeah as I recall they had their little piggies all in on this too...when one wants to know who benefits the most in an advocacy situation like this that will generated lot's of mandatory(forced) cash it's helpful to employ the same techniques in fraud situations: follow the money! Most advocates in this cluserfudge are set to benefit financially from this monstrosity; I always find it humorous that the DUmmies get all up in arms when oil companies influence energy policy to their benefits financially, yet when it came to healthcare they totally abandoned the idea of looking where the money points to--well until they got a load of those premiums that is. :lmao:
But oil is evil!
I'll add they never seem to make the same political connections as they do when another for-profit organization benefits from a piece of legislation ie Cheney and Halliburton. I see they have begun to jump on insurance companies without making the obvious connections to the closed door meetings to put together obamacare with their DEMOCRAT masters. It seems as if corporate greed happens in some isolated vacuum when democrats are involved--a rogue situation which of course some hapless, trusting dem didn't foresee. When corporate greed is involving republicans then it is full boar on the right wing 1% corporatist pig rants all day long and how this should signal the end of capitalism and republicans. Inconsistent dumbasses.
I suppose it never occurs to them that their own democrat leaders are now behaving like JR Ewing screwing over Cliff in a deal--cavalier and well that's how things roll boys. I thought they hate that attitude; guess it's ok to be a cavalier, condescending shithead as long as you are a leftist being the elitist snob.
Some of the DUmmies said the whole thing is a give away for insurance companies, but that was years ago, and haven't seen any of that talk now.
I've seen it, but much of it is disconnected from their own party who not only voted this in, but had closed-door sessions with those same companies constructing this piece of crap. Craziness...
HOLY-MOLY.....$566 per month for the cheapest and $1176 per month for the best.
Thank god sweet thing is still working and got us covered thru work.
Wait until the employer mandate kicks in next year. If her policy doesn't meet the standards that Obama thinks they should then you will likely be screwed, too.
She was off work today for the holiday BUT REQUIRED to attend a big company meeting. The head of the company said their insurance was good don't worry about it, everything is OK.....then I told her "Until next year when the employer mandates kick in"....Damn, I ruined her day.
I hope Cadillac sues Barack Obama for slander.
Oh wait, he already owns their asses.
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Seriously, who the hell can afford this?
I decided to add my wife and daughter.......................... :o
This is MORE than my mortgage!
Seriously, who the hell can afford this?