Hi I’m Matt Cutts, Administrator for USDS, AMA 🔥

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We were founded in 2014 by the President to fix Healthcare.gov (http://healthcare.gov/) when it went down. We’re ~180 technologists from tech communities across the United States, not just Silicon Valley. Diversity is important to us. We’re ~50% women in leadership and 50% female overall. Our work serves all Americans including Veterans, military service members, immigrants, refugees, small business owners, farmers, students, and Medicare patients. Excited to be here and answer your questions. And if anyone wants to check out the US Digital Service or apply, check us out at https://www.usds.gov/ !

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Good evening, Mr Cutts... why has the US taken so long to join the rest of the world in providing exclusively taxpayer funded healthcare for all residents?

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6yr ago

@hasan_diwan that's an interesting question. I view the goal of the US Digital Service as non-partisan and trying to make government work better for the American public through technology and design. That can be helping a Veteran apply for her health benefits or assisting a small business become certified to participate for contracts. It's vital work and we need more engineers, designers, and product managers to come help. For larger questions like this, it's better to look toward elected officials.

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6yr ago

@mattcutts It's not a question of who to look to to sort it, it has not been done. And the fact that it has not been done is the primary reason my wife and I no longer live in the United States.

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6yr ago

good

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6yr ago

Hi Matt. Very good idea.

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