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Obamacare: The Collapse of Cover Oregon

This is pretty close to what the Obama administration dreams of: Insurance plans looking to woo millions of new customers—and slashing their rates in the process.

After spending more than $300 million setting up the state’s health care exchange, not a single citizen of the state signed up for Obamacare via the website before it was closed down.... Taxpayers were taken for $300 million and no one appears to know where all that money went. Go To Site

As states launch their federally mandated health insurance exchanges, officials in Oregon say they are poised to set a high bar for just how smoothly such a system can operate. -Adam Stone Go To Site

Originally hailed as a model of a state-run exchange, Cover Oregon failed to ever enroll a single person, but managed to run up hundreds of millions in costs while pulling off the unlikely accomplishment of failing more spectacularly than HealthCare.gov itself -Dan Calabrese Go To Site

The Oregon Obamacare exchange has received $305 million in taxpayer-funded federal grants, spent $160 million on its busted website, dropped $10 million on hipster promotional ads, erroneously enrolled 4,000 illegal immigrants in full Oregon Health Plan coverage contrary to federal law, and has not enrolled a single Oregonian online. -Dan Riehl Go To Site

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A consultant's long-awaited report on the state's health insurance exchange was considered so sensitive that Cover Oregon officials asked him not to turn it in, The Oregonian has learned... Hamstreet's firm left the project in September after getting paid more than $600,000. But documents and interviews show that officials asked him not to deliver the written report he was contractually bound to produce, apparently thinking it would then remain a secret.

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This is pretty close to what the Obama administration dreams of: Insurance plans looking to woo millions of new customers—and slashing their rates in the process... In Oregon though, we do have evidence of a competitive marketplace in health insurance–one that did not exist before health plans' premiums were put side-by-side.

Cover Oregon: The Folk Song


We on the right have Ted Nugent. Democrats have this. Limp and pathetic. "Doctor, I can't find a pulse!"

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Oregon’s answer was to approach the construction of its $300 million system using a methodology known as design thinking. Oregon joined 10 other states and the federal government to participate in Enroll UX 2014, a program that used design thinking to create a reference model for state and federal health insurance exchanges. Design thinking is generating buzz in engineering and design as a better way to solve business problems.

Oregon's experience building a health insurance exchange shows what's involved for IT operations... The solution, says Lawson, was "ruthless incrementalism. We had to build in an agile fashion and build what we know, and then put the pieces together like Legos." -Chris Murphy, Information Week

Cover Oregon: The Mockery


Face it liberals: you had this coming.

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An analysis by ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news site, noted the "spectacular failure of health insurance exchanges in Minnesota, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Maryland -- all blue states that support the Affordable Care Act." They were among the 14 states that chose to implement their own insurance shopping sites... Oregon never managed to launch an online shopping experience for consumers at all.

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After months of trying to get its problem-plagued online health exchange to work, Oregon on Friday officially gave up on the state portal and decided to switch to the federal website — the first state in the nation to do so.

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Cover Oregon closed one of the sorrier chapters in the history of Oregon state government Friday when it opted to dump its troubled $248 million health insurance exchange in favor of the federal exchange... Cover Oregon has 16 insurance company partners. Most of them already have built their own portals to the federal exchange. But some haven't and have poured considerable resources into customizing their own portal to Oregon's exchange -- the technology that will now be abandoned.

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The 70,000 Oregonians who signed up for individual insurance may have to do so all over again, says Clyde Hamstreet, Cover Oregon's third chief in five months... Oregonians may have other problems with the federal exchange, too... five of the 16 health insurance companies currently doing business in the state don't have the computer interface needed to work with the federal exchange.

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The FBI reportedly is probing the failed launch of Oregon's ObamaCare insurance exchange, joining several other agencies looking into the multimillion-dollar program that was scrapped last month... The state exchange, called Cover Oregon, stood out as perhaps the worst-run of all the ObamaCare exchanges. The state decided last month to abandon the system and default to the federally run insurance exchange, on HealthCare.gov. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI has interviewed several people as part of the inquiry.

A bill dissolving the independent corporation that runs Cover Oregon is on its way to the Gov. Kate Brown. But even when it is gone, Cover Oregon will leave a legacy of hundreds of millions of dollars spent on a health exchange that failed - with even more millions in legal fees and other expenses still to come. -Dean Chambers Go To Site