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Agile programming, anyone?

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GOPanic had a recent posting showing that much of the information needed for enrolling in a qualified health plan was available from http://data.healthcare.gov. (though it does seem a little incomplete, and missing some of the insurance suppliers (maybe)).

data.healthcare.gov is basically a human-readable interface into the QHP database - so with a little bit of care (search on state, then find your county and click on the number on the far left field) - you can manually retrieve the data.

But wait! There's more! It's actually better than that - the site has instructions for performing webservice queries. In fact it gives fairly simple python examples.  It would not be a difficult problem to write a website that could perform the backend of healthcare.gov. It could be a fun agile problem for a software engineering class - or a programming and beer weekend.

 From what I've heard - it looks like most of the problems with healthcare.gov are due to the income validation step which depends on commercial sources. If data.healthcare.gov is the database and web interface for the second parts of healthcare.gov - it looks like it is well-engineered.


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