What we can learn from Healthcare.gov

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The Healthcare.gov launch fiasco, subsequent Congressional hearings, daily bug updates, and Google engineer assistance has revealed just how poorly the United States government builds technology.

Two recent articles, one from Theverge.com and the second a NYTimes Op Ed, outline in beautiful simplicity, just how messed up the government’s approach to building technology is, from the presiding mentality to the archaic procurement process and beyond.

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