Like the Mariners’ string of depressing seasons and lost opportunities, this month’s botched rollout of the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) healthcare.gov website represents a huge lost opportunity for the federal government. And some of the root causes of these two fiascos are amazingly similar.
Washington state’s own, separate, health benefit exchange registered phenomenal success, enrolling over 35,000 people in three weeks.
How can one state succeed where the federal government, with all its resources, cannot?
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