Health Sherpa : Health Insurance

How hard is it to create a website to help people get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act? Spurred by the problems that have surrounded the rollout of the official HeathCare.gov site, the trio created an alternative, Health Sherpa, quickly and cheaply. We only use carefully vetted, publicly available data," the site reads. "The Health Sherpa is not affiliated with any lobby, trade group or government agency and has no political agenda." Tech experts enlisted to help fix Obamacare website "Unlike Healthcare.gov, our site doesn't connect to the IRS, DHS, and various state exchanges and authorities. Furthermore, we're using the government's data, so our site is only possible because of the hard work that the Healthcare.gov team has done." NY government website lists bakery, mechanic for Obamacare help Creating the original Sherpa site took three days and cost "several hundred dollars," according to Kalogeropoulos. "Tens of thousands of people have clicked through to buy a specific plan, suggesting that we are achieving our goal: helping people find a health insurance plan."