Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rather than 16

<a href="http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/insurance_plans?zip_code=27596" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thehealthsherpa.com&#x2F;insurance_plans?zip_code=2759...</a><p>27596 is in multiple counties - you&#x27;ve got it listed only in Wake, but it&#x27;s also Franklin county and IIRC Granville county too.<p>Is suspect 27596 is not the only ZIP in the country with this issue, and it can affect the results of this - Coventry was supposedly (as of a few days ago, anyway) not offering ACA plans in Franklin county, but was in Wake.

I hope you got paid $150mm to create that.

Without information on the deductible this isn&#x27;t as useful as it looks. Please add it!<p>The price of plans varies dramatically by the deductible, and for most healthy people the deductible matters WAY more than the nominal plan level. (Since for ordinary services the different plan levels pay an extra $10-$50, but for a catastrophe the only number that matters is the deductible.)

Wow I am really in a tough spot. For me to cover my family and my spouse will be $630 a month for bronze i.e 60% coverage.<p>for zip code 03570<p>I recently came across <a href="http://samaritanministries.org/intro/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;samaritanministries.org&#x2F;intro&#x2F;</a> and it&#x27;s much more appealing.

Nice Job! I&#x27;d suggest adding a page with information on what each plan level (Gold, Silver, Bronze) covers at minimum.

Very nice! I was thinking of creating something similar as I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only one who just quickly wants to see how much option X would cost. Where did you guys get the data from? I was considering screen scraping the main site but I gave up after I couldn&#x27;t get it to load at all.<p>Would be nice if something like this was on the official site but my guess as to why it&#x27;s not (besides the general mismanagement of the site creation...) is that by default it shows higher prices for plans than people would be eligible for (ex: no income based subsidies). That would make them &quot;look bad&quot; and they&#x27;d like to show lower overall costs.<p>Bug report too: When I entered a zip code the first two pages of the results show up blank. Clicking page 3 and onward show the data though. If there&#x27;s only one page of data nothing shows up at all (no paging links either).

Here is their official Developer API<p>To send a request: <a href="https://data.healthcare.gov/resource/qhp-iml-dev.json?state=NJ&amp;county=Warren" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.healthcare.gov&#x2F;resource&#x2F;qhp-iml-dev.json?state=...</a>

Good stuff. Would you open source this ? The prices are a great starting point. A nice addition will be to easily see details like deductibles, co-pays, out of pocket limits, exclusions etc, the price just by itself won&#x27;t be a perfect measure.

I wrote the same thing, with a much crappier user interface, last week. Mine includes Idaho and New Mexico as well: <a href="http://healthcare.brianjcohen.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;healthcare.brianjcohen.com</a><p>My notes on that page explain why this is really not a great dataset. These aren&#x27;t really price quotes, they&#x27;re averages they&#x27;ve generated for various age ranges. And since deductibles, coinsurance rates, and copays aren&#x27;t included, there&#x27;s really no way to compare them on a level playing field (although this is a problem that healthcare.gov has as well).

Looks like the actual healthcare.gov website is not that bad anymore when it comes to just checking on prices in your area. Just use the following URL and replace the state and county with your choice. My example uses NJ&#x2F;Warren county.<p><a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/find-premium-estimates/#results/&amp;aud=indv&amp;type=med&amp;state=NJ&amp;county=Warren&amp;cov=family" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthcare.gov&#x2F;find-premium-estimates&#x2F;#results&#x2F;&amp;...</a>

Great timing! It&#x27;s unfortunate that 2&#x2F;3 states that I tried have &quot;their own healthcare exchange.&quot; Kind of defeats the point of having centralized healthcare and also a complete pain the ass for the consumer.<p>On a bright side, I bet a ton of people got their pockets full by working on all of these exchanges.

the actual healthcare.gov (if you can get in) actually does a decent job of letting you compare plans in detail... there are far more factors to consider than just monthly deductible. various copays, out of network coverage, whether dental and vision are included, etc. this site does none of that

Not robust yet. Try: <a href="http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/insurance_plans?zip_code=94043+" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thehealthsherpa.com&#x2F;insurance_plans?zip_code=9404...</a> and see an error.

Washington DC zip codes don&#x27;t work (e.g., 20001, 20002, 20011, etc.).

FYI, tried to enter zipcode 85502 and received a &quot;We&#x27;re sorry, something went wrong&quot; message. Worked fine for other zipcodes I was interested in. Thanks for creating this!

When I entered my zip code, the site stated that my state, Arkansas, is running its own exchange. In fact, Arkansas defaulted to the federal exchange.

Any plans to list the link to the summary of benefits as well? That would be super nice.

Was really excited about this, but no functionality for New York. :&#x2F;

I was waiting for someone to do this...

22314 doesn&#x27;t work at all.