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Re:Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rat... by sehrope on Friday November 01, 2013 @04:05PM (#6656031)
Very nice! I was thinking of creating something similar as I'm sure I'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't get it to load at all.

Would be nice if something like this was on the official site but my guess as to why it'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 "look bad" and they'd like to show lower overall costs.

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's only one page of data nothing shows up at all (no paging links either).

Re:Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rat... by mwasser on Friday November 01, 2013 @04:30PM (#6656205)
Data comes from https://data.healthcare.gov/dataset/QHP-Individual-Medical-L...

Thanks for the bug report- In theory I just pushed a fix for it. Could you confirm it's working for you now? If it's still there, could you let me know what zipcode you are using?

Re:Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rat... by sehrope on Friday November 01, 2013 @04:48PM (#6656298)
First page issue is fixed now.

I was about to report one more about funky displaying of plan names but looks like the source data itself is like that (in the set you linked too). Search for bronze plans in 07302 and you'll see: AmeriHealth NJ Tier 1 Advantage_Ã

Re:Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rat... by critium on Friday November 01, 2013 @04:32PM (#6656224)
Same here. But more of a parody site with some 'bugs' and 'outages'