States can easily muck this up -
1. Charge the federal government exorbitant fees for operating in the state.
2. Make the feds operate according to state law.
3. Sends hoards of state bureaucrats to federal offices and make them comply with impossible building, environmental and work regulations.
Congress should create a bill that says either everything is 100% complete and signed off on by the participating states by October 1 or the state exchanges are thrown out and the company hired to do the work doesn’t get paid. However, the project team gets paid.
We all know that the award for this contract more than likely already went to an Obama donor which means this is going to be a big fail.