What Estonia has done is quite amazing. I remember visiting in the early 2000s, internet in many places and incredibly reasonable. Estonia is small, became ind

What Estonia has done is quite amazing. I remember visiting in the early 2000s, internet in many places and incredibly reasonable. Estonia is small, became independent while I was in college, and entered the EU about ten years ago. I don't know how much of a clean slate the govt had in building things out, but they did something right. Building a website or an app for US healthcare is just lipstick on top of the messy pig known as legacy, non-connected legacy systems. This is complicated and will take a great deal of knowledge to understand and get right. Layering the existing bloated approach to govt contracts just exacerbated the issue. Unfortunately, we don't have as clean of a slate.