Hey all! @Eugenewang15 and I founded HoneyInsured. After graduating in January, we discovered we needed health insurance (yea school for protecting us for 3.5 years!) and found insurance too confusing.
Walla, HoneyInsured, insurance recommendation engine! We thought it’d be interesting to use open data to build Hipmunk-like visualizations that let you compare options. We also use the data to automatically help you avoid common pitfalls during shopping. The goal is that you’ll be on, enrolled (with subsidies!), and off our site in 5 minutes :)
@graceggee 👊 I love seeing more innovation in healthcare. This looks good. Two questions:
1. How does it compare to other similar, established services like HealthSherpa? http://healthsherpa.com
2. When you expand to other states like CA, will you push customers out to their state-specific exchanges (again like HealthSherpa and others do) or will customers be able to stay in your flow?
@thetylerhayes@graceggee Hi Tyler, thanks so much for your compliments and 👊. It really means a lot to us :)
1. Coming from data science backgrounds, our main focus is on presenting and visualizing health insurance data so everyone (even insurance beginners) can make better coverage decisions. Although we also offer the same fast enrollment service like Healthsherpa, we’ll continue to innovate on the frontier of data! :D
2. For right now, we’re just starting out and are focused on states where integration is more straightforward (e.g. federal exchanges). If we go into CA, we'll make sure it's the same flow. Integration with CA will probably be more manual than tech, but we will certainly hope to expand to CA soon!
HoneyInsured is a health insurance recommendation engine that can enroll you (including tax subsidies) in 5 min. You can compare all your insurance options in one beautiful chart and get your benefits explained in simple terms. The recommendation engine automatically helps you avoid pitfalls during insurance shopping so you know you're getting the best deal. They're currently available in 8 states (TX, GA, FL, VA, MO, OH, NC, PA) and are in the inaugural 2015 YC Fellowship batch.
@jacqvon Hi Jacq, We'd definitely want to be in CA soon - a lot of people love us there! :) Unfortunately the state exchanges are harder to integrate with than the federal ones (ironically!). We're currently authorized partners of Healthcare.gov, but an analogous structure is not set up just yet for CA.
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Nice, great UI...love the core concept of simplifying the process...great job!
@anrxcomplex Yeah! Thanks Sandra! I'm glad that we are able to make insurance simpler for you :D Any feedback please let us know :D
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Love this! I just read a NY Times article showing how many Americans overspend on health care due to insurance illiteracy. HoneyInsured took a minute to replicate hours of my health plan research, coming up with a similar answer. Thanks for cutting through the 50 plan saga.
I'd love to see your questions break down specific services people use instead of the slider--it's tough to visualize total expenses for a year. It's easy to say "I visit X specialist twice, have 2 rounds of blood work, 1 physical, glasses, and 3 sick visits" to get a total. Also, if you could optimize for and recommend vision and dental that'd be useful, too.
@runningdmc Wow, this made our day! We're so glad we helped you on your plan research. You're right on, Obamacare made many plan options available, but many consumers are facing dozens of choices with no understanding of them (we've seen zip codes with >100 plans!).
Thanks for the suggestion Dawn! That sounds like a great idea, we’ll definitely look into it when we build our next version!
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@graceggee Can't wait. Also, excited to see you come into my area. I used TX as a test case since you're not here yet.
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