Website using HealthCare.gov info sees boost in traffic as ease of use praised (CBS News) Some people might say that buying insurance on the troubled HealthCare.gov website is like climbing a mountain. Not long ago, CBS News reported about TheHealthSherpa.com, a website that helps consumers reach their goal. It didn't take the developers very long to set up the site, and thousands of customers cannot wait to get started. It has been a busy few days for three guys who built a website to do what HealthCare.gov has been unable to do. After CBS News ran the story about their site, visits to TheHealthSherpa.com jumped dramatically. George Kalogeropoulos, one of the site's creators, said, "So we were at about 10 concurrent visitors, and then you guys aired the story about us, and we jumped to about 2,000 people on the site at one time, which promptly took our site down for about five minutes, after which we fixed it." Kalogeropoulos, Ning Liang, and Michael Wasser are all in their twenties. After working for companies like Twitter and Microsoft, they are now building their own internet start-ups. Wasser said, "As entrepreneurs, we're trained to build it as quickly as possible with as few people as possible. This is totally a great example of that, is how can you build as much as you can as quickly as you can. What they built is a website that lets users get quick answers about health insurance plans. The irony is that all the information in TheHealthSherpa.com comes from HealthCare.gov. Liang said, "We were very fortunate because HealthCare.gov actually did publish the underlying data they use for their estimates." Asked if they used information that's already in HealthCare.gov, and just made it easier to access, Liang replied, "Exactly." Bonnie Ward, a mother of two in New Hampshire, used TheHealthSherpa to find insurance for herself and her daughters. Ward said via Skype, "It was much easier and really my children could do it -- a 10-year-old could do it. ... It was very easy. All you have to know is your age and your zip code. Blackstone asked, "Are you surprised three guys in their twenties could do what a bunch of government contractors couldn't do?" Ward said, "To be frank, I am actually not surprised." The three who built TheHealthSherpa say it cost them only some late nights and a couple of hundred dollars. They hope the government site will soon improve and make theirs unnecessary. Watch John Blackstone's full report above.