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by BinaryIdiot 3490 days ago
After doing 6 years of government contracting and also interviewing with Nava I get the impression they're a higher grade of government contractor than what you typically work with. The initial failure of Healthcare.gov was no surprise to me (in fact I was surprised they even had a homepage working based on my government contracting experiences) and having Nava come in and fix things in what was likely a pretty horrific codebase is nothing short of impressive.

Having said that there is still a ton of red tape and issues surrounding not just government contracting in general but also around the fact that different states and insurance providers have different systems that all work differently but somehow need to work together under this single application.

So I wouldn't expect much even though the Nava folks, in my short time dealing with them and comparing them to other contractors, seem fairly solid.