"Affordable Care Act" Health Insurance Plans Data
The goal of this project is to increase pricing transparency in ACA health insurance plans (also known as Obamacare plans).
The project currently scrapes healthcare plan information from the healthcare.gov website, so we don't have prices from state-run exchanges.
The data can be found under data/output/[year]/[plan_type]/[fips].json (more on FIPS below)
Run it yourself
First run make setup (to install the python3 packages, found in requirements.txt), then make run.
It will take a long time since there is a 1 second waiting time in between each scrape (we don't want to make the website crash again)
More info
The FIPS code represents counties of the US. You can look up counties by zip code in data/input/zip2fips.json to find the ones you're interested in (there can be multiple counties in one zip code).
This project collects data in a machine-readable format. There is a separate project for the website which uses this data to display information about health plans in an easy to digest format for humans (coming soon).
Thanks
The FIPS/zip code data is available thanks to @bgruber/zip2fips (which I forked to be able to filter states)