3 random 20-year-old dudes build fully functional ObamaCare web site in a few days

[TemplarKormac]

How pathetic is it when your government spends $634 million to build a website that has not been working since day one, but a trio of random 20-somethings can build a fully functioning replica of the same site in just days, for FREE? You tell me.

Moral of the story: Government should not be involved in the healthcare business.

The power of the absence of government.

Want to make just about anything work better? Keep the government as far away from it as possible, then step back and behold the wonderment and goodness.

Here's what you get. It's simple and quick, gives you all the information you need and links to the insurers so you can buy.

Via Chicks on the Right, with a hat tip to my friend Sarah Barnes, San Francisco residents Ning Liang, George Kalogeropoulous and Michael Wasser suspected that HealthCare.gov would have worked just fine if it had been thought through correctly from the start, and built using simple logic and basic common sense. In a few days, with a budget of exactly zero, they proved it. The UK's Daily Mail reports:

'They got it completely backwards in terms of what people want up front,' Liang told CBS News. The programmer continued: 'They want prices and benefits, so that they could make the decision.'

HealthSherpa.com, which is just two weeks old, allows a user to simply input their zip code and view all the health plans available to them.

The website claims: '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 programmers are also adding features to the site, such as a section on tax subsidies. But the three 20-year-olds say they worked on the project as a service rather than to make money.

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