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Healthcare.gov

Healthcare.gov's marketplace content, dumped as JSON

🩺 Health & FoodHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
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Healthcare.gov exposes its editorial content — glossary terms, articles, and guidance about the US health-insurance marketplace — as static JSON via /api. It's built for reuse and translation, with each entry carrying both English and Spanish text. No key, US-government content.

92HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 92 · healthy
Uptime history
96.1%90 days
93.3%30 days
420P50 · ms
1696P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 91 ms, slowest 1194 ms, most recent 580 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.healthcare.gov/api/index.json

[
  {
    "tags": [
      "glossary"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "glossary"
    ],
    "title": "Affordability Exemption",
    "es-title": "Exención de accesibilidad",
    "url": "/glossary/affordability-exemption/",
    "bite": "An exemption that's needed when applying for Catastrophic coverage for people 30 years or older whose coverage is unaffordable."
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.healthcare.gov/api/index.json"
const res = await fetch("https://www.healthcare.gov/api/index.json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.healthcare.gov/api/index.json")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /api/index.json420 mschecked 12h ago
GET/api/index.jsonPROBED

Healthcare.gov's marketplace content, dumped as JSON

GET/api

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/1

Api details by ID (example: 1).

GET/api?limit=10

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/api/:content-type.json

:Content Type Json — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Healthcare.gov: common questions

Is Healthcare.gov free to use?

Yes — Healthcare.gov is a free health & food API. Free tier: Free — no key required. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does Healthcare.gov need an API key?

No — Healthcare.gov needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Healthcare.gov from the browser?

Not directly — Healthcare.gov doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is Healthcare.gov up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Healthcare.gov is healthy with 96.1% uptime over 90 days and a 420 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.