I'm releasing the first version of PickHealthInsurance today. It helps you compare health insurance plans (individual, not group) in the US.
I put this together over a few weekends. My COBRA is about to run out and I found it exceptionally difficult to compare plans and prices with the existing sites. This is the third time I've had to buy individual insurance and I finally decided to do something about it.
Things crystallized for me when I almost bought a plan that claimed to cover maternity, only to discover late in the game that it had a separate $20,000 maternity deductible! What a mess!
I have a few goals with PickHealthInsurance:
- start showing approximate rates almost immediately, don't pester me with a bunch of questions
- explain confusing terms like "coinsurance" and point out the difference between a PPO and a POS.
- show plan stats up front, not buried deep within the bowels of the application process
- make it easy to use and blazingly fast
Built with:
- Rails 3.1 (HAML, Sass, Coffeescript)
- Twitter Bootstrap CSS
- Deployed on Heroku/MongoHQ
What do you think?
I put this together over a few weekends. My COBRA is about to run out and I found it exceptionally difficult to compare plans and prices with the existing sites. This is the third time I've had to buy individual insurance and I finally decided to do something about it.
Things crystallized for me when I almost bought a plan that claimed to cover maternity, only to discover late in the game that it had a separate $20,000 maternity deductible! What a mess!
I have a few goals with PickHealthInsurance:
- start showing approximate rates almost immediately, don't pester me with a bunch of questions
- explain confusing terms like "coinsurance" and point out the difference between a PPO and a POS.
- show plan stats up front, not buried deep within the bowels of the application process
- make it easy to use and blazingly fast
Built with:
- Rails 3.1 (HAML, Sass, Coffeescript)
- Twitter Bootstrap CSS
- Deployed on Heroku/MongoHQ
What do you think?