YUP. AND, if this reckoning does not result in the recognition that it is *insane* to ask 50+ states and territories to build and buy their own systems that do 90%+ the same thing, then we’ve missed the biggest opportunity for positive change entirely. https://twitter.com/mheadd/status/1246419812961697798

Curious what the alternative could look like? Give this from @edmullen a careful read; it lays out a set of convictions that I fully share after 4 years of banging my head against the confines of the current setup in my work with state & fed agencies: https://github.com/edmullen/eligibility-systems-concept/blob/master/ecosystem.md

It does not need to be this impossibly hard to do the right thing. We could make it far easier. I hope once we’re on the other side of this, we are willing to do it.