>'I think exclusive contracts should be abandoned anywhere they can be. Why should there only be one monolithic Healthcare.gov?' I completely agree with the fi

>'I think exclusive contracts should be abandoned anywhere they can be. Why should there only be one monolithic Healthcare.gov?' I completely agree with the first sentence conceptually, but think the second is a terrible fit for that concept. A monolithic healthcare.gov actually makes a lot of sense as every implementation will necessarily have loads of shared functionality. There's a reason state exchanges have spent multiples of what healthcare.gov has per sign-up. [1] >'Every single company that wants to should be able to build their own solution to this. They can be rewarded based on how many users they get, or the best one can win a bounty.' This isn't a throwaway chat app. The tacit Government approval of free-for-all collection of the SSNs, income and health coverage information that go into a marketplace application would not be wise. 1: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/08/310721495/healthcare-gov-looks-like-a-bargain-compared-with-state-exchanges http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/08/310721495/healthc...