While Obamacare's federal exchange website continues to struggle, there are at least three places where the landmark healthcare law is faring well: Connecticut, Kentucky and Washington. And in a new Op-Ed for the Washington Post, the Democratic governors of these three states — Dannel Malloy, Steve Beshear and Jay Inslee, respectively — explain why they've had so much more success than most. The short answer? State-level cooperation.

"The Affordable Care Act has been successful in our states because our political and community leaders grasped the importance of expanding health-care coverage and have avoided the temptation to use health-care reform as a political football," the governors write. "In our states, elected leaders have decided to put people, not politics, first."

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As an example, the governors cite the acceptance of the Medicaid expansion in Kentucky and Washington, where in both cases a mostly unified state government embraced the expansion for its job- and cost-saving effects. Connecticut, meanwhile, is experiencing a very successful state-run exchange, with a customer satisfaction level of 96.5 percent. The results of these moves, according to the governors, is "people are getting better coverage at a better price."

More from Malloy, Beshear and Inslee at the Washington Post: