Ben Swann – by Kristen TateThe Obama Administration has spent multiple years and over $634 million to build the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov. Despite all of the time and money poured into the site, it still remains broken and glitchy.
Meanwhile in San Francisco, three 20-year-olds were able to build their own Obamacare website that actually works — and they did it in just three days.
Ning Liang, George Kalogeropoulos and Michael Wasser built HealthSherpa.com, which presents the Obamacare marketplace in a much simpler, more effective manner than HealthCare.gov does.
Currently, users must enter all of their personal information into the HealthCare.gov system before even getting a quote. On HealthSherpa.com, however, users only need to enter their zip code to see all of the plans and available pricing.
Liang said, “[The government] got it completely backwards in terms of what people want up front. They want prices and benefits, so that they could make the decision.”
HealthSherpa.com says, “The Health Sherpa is a free guide that makes it easier to find and sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. We only use carefully vetted, publicly available data.”
The trio claims they made the site to help people — not to make money. Wasser said, “There was no thought of, ‘How do we make money this time?’ 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.’”
The 20-year-olds’ project has many scratching their heads. With hundreds of millions of tax dollars at its disposal, why couldn’t the government get it right?
Kristin Tate was trained in journalism by John Stossel at the Fox Business Network. Dedicated to fearless reporting, Tate regularly works on undercover stings with journalist James O’Keefe to reveal government waste, abuse, and fraud. Tate was a Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) Chapter President and Founder in Boston. She has been heavily involved in the libertarian movement, campaigning for notable candidates like Ron Paul and Thomas Massie. She will continue to fight tirelessly for individual liberty and free markets through journalism and new media. Follow Kristin on Twitter @KristinBTate.
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The 20-year-olds’ project has many scratching their heads. With hundreds of millions of tax dollars at its disposal, why couldn’t the government get it right?
With all you have seen and experienced why would you think they wanted it to be right?
Never assume anything and keep that ring away from your nose.
Exactly Susan … they “didn’t” want Obamacare to work. “False” hope and change once again. What will it take for people to figure this out?
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Yep. I am just a data analyst but I have worked on projects for years where I have done testing on new applications we have built in-house. This whole thing stinks. Heck our little team of 3 or 4 people could have built something better in just a few days. When users could not even get past the home page….They meant for this to fail. It’s the same old trick- create a problem or a false flag- get people all screaming that ‘something must be done to fix this’ -offer the solution. We can bet the ‘solution’ they offer up will not be good for us.
Where did the $ millions and $ millions and $ millions go?
Israhell, probably.