GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Insufficient funds and staffing make poorly run government instituti

I chose A, however, I think that I spent a whole minute longer in making the final choice because I kept reading the questions choices over again. I had come in with an idea of what this particular sentence questions should read like. However, I didn't find that in the choices, and furthermore found that I may have misread the intended meaning of the sentence. That got me reading the question choices a few times. I wonder if there is a way to avoid the mishap I ran into?

I caught the parallelism,
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