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Three 20-Year-Olds Make Working Obamacare Website in Three Days

How much would you pay for a health care exchange website which is non-functional, contains garbage code, and is always down for maintenance?

$174 million, according to The Washington Post.

How much would you pay for a health care exchange website which works as it’s supposed to and allows you to compare health care plans in your region?

Apparently, nothing.

Meet TheHealthSherpa.com, the brainchild of three twenty-something programmers from San Francisco who did something which the federal government could not do: build a functioning website.

Miffed at the problems plaguing the Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, Ning Liang, George Kalogeropoulos and Michael Wasser set out to create a version of the maligned government site with one key difference: theirs would actually work.

And it only took them three days to do it.

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Btw, I heard that Solyndra called these guys up and asked them if they know anything about solar panels.

 

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