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Great timing! It's unfortunate that 2/3 states that I tried have "their own healthcare exchange." Kind of defeats the point of having centralized healthcare and also a complete pain the ass for the consumer.

On a bright side, I bet a ton of people got their pockets full by working on all of these exchanges.

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Yeah -- the story behind it is intriguing. Also, the states that have their own exchanges use central services provided by the federal gov for subsidy eligibility.

I do think we will see states release data back to the federal gov for ease of use in time. NM and ID already has done this and other states seem to send their raw data to individuals when asked -- suggesting the data can be centralized (e.g. when we reached out to CA for data, they quickly provided their data to us).

This is very interesting to me, I live in KY and we have our own exchange. Do to not having all my data (my fault not theirs) on hand the process of submitting an application has spanned a few days and their interface is really bad. I'd like to play with raw data and throw something together to allow for quick and easy searching. Who did you contact in CA for the data? I'd like to find the KY equivalent and reach out. Thanks and great job on the site!

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