Show HN: PickHealthInsurance.com
I'm releasing the first version of PickHealthInsurance today. It helps you compare health insurance plans (individual, not group) in the US.<p>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.<p>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!<p>I have a few goals with PickHealthInsurance:<p>- start showing approximate rates almost immediately, don't pester me with a bunch of questions<p>- explain confusing terms like "coinsurance" and point out the difference between a PPO and a POS.<p>- show plan stats up front, not buried deep within the bowels of the application process<p>- make it easy to use and blazingly fast<p>Built with:<p>- Rails 3.1 (HAML, Sass, Coffeescript)<p>- Twitter Bootstrap CSS<p>- Deployed on Heroku/MongoHQ<p>What do you think?