Notes and Translations for the New York Times coverage of healthcare.gov

Re:Notes and Translations for the New York Times coverage of... by TrainedMonkey on Monday October 21, 2013 @01:35PM (#6586992)

So 55 separate goverment contractors trying to integrate incredibly nitpicky set of data and it does not work? I wonder why. Maybe first they should have fixed the process. You can't build nationwide websites same way you build physical things.

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Re:Notes and Translations for the New York Times coverage of... by sp332 on Monday October 21, 2013 @02:33PM (#6587333)

You can't "fix the process". The website has to talk to hundreds of corporations, and dozens of federal and state agencies.

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Re:Notes and Translations for the New York Times coverage of... by ape4 on Monday October 21, 2013 @02:53PM (#6587467)

They could tell/encourage all the agencies to follow one schema/API

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Re:Notes and Translations for the New York Times coverage of... by DougWebb on Monday October 21, 2013 @04:50PM (#6588124)

They'd balk if you did that. But they could have been told "Create a wrapper API that adheres to this standard, or your product will not be available on the new national Healthcare site."

Most of the insurance companies would have scrambled to not be left out, because if they missed the Oct 1 date they could have lost out on a huge pool of new business for a year.

This wouldn't work for credit agencies and State systems, but that's a much smaller pool of systems to integrate with.

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Re:Notes and Translations for the New York Times coverage of... by ape4 on Monday October 21, 2013 @06:01PM (#6588516)

Yes, that's what I meant. Push the work to the insurance companies.

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