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I've talked to people working on Direct File. It succeeded because a) it was built in-house with b) dedicated civic technologists who obsessed about making user experience better. It showed that government could build good tech more cheaply and effectively than external vendors. So it had to go.
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fire the experts - hire yourself at twice the price! www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-rep...
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Weren't there news stories several years back about Republican states paying consultants to help people in their state sign up for Medicaid in order to reduce the state's burden?
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Medicaid has grown by 8.5 million enrollees or 32% in Republican congressional districts since 2013
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www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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It's weird how a political movement that could never brook the idea that the United States had ever done anything wrong came to embrace a swaggering narcissist who was constitutionally incapable of ever contemplating the possibility that he'd done anything wrong.