AP PHOTO/SUSAN WALSH, FILE
Enter
hollowness. It’s nice that people
like Ann Kirkpatrick have achieved
the level of sentience necessary to
recognize when something doesn’t
work, and that “stuff not working”
is bad. But the fear of protecting
one’s flank from attacks on Obamacare is obscuring a problem that
goes much further than the health
care provision.
If there’s anything the troubled
launch of Healthcare.gov illuminates, it’s that a lot of work needs
to be done to bring the government into the 21st century. The
malady is obvious: Government
LOOKING FORWARD
IN ANGST
HUFFINGTON
02.23.14
If there’s anything
the troubled launch of
Healthcare.gov illuminates,
it’s that a lot of work
needs to be done to bring
the government into the
21st century.”
databases are not standardized
and can’t be synchronized. The
contracting and procurement
process needs to be reformed so
that online projects — great and
small — are built in a rational and
competent way. And this is not a
partisan issue: Future presidents
of all political persuasions will be
Joe Garcia
(D-Fla.) was
lauded in a
Democratic
House Majority
PAC ad this
month for
taking the
White House
to task for the
health care
website.