Oregon might have a functioning health exchange website someday, or not, no one knows

[Theb]

Throwing in the towel and moving to the federal exchange.

In the end, there were 73 million compelling reasons for Oregon to dump its expensive, troubled in-house health care exchange in favor of the federal exchange.

Trying to make the Oracle-based system fully functional would have cost at least $78 million, on top of the $248 million already spent, compared to about $5 million for moving to the federal system, Oregon Chief Information Officer Alex Pettit said Tuesday to the Legislature's Joint Committee on Legislative Audits, Information Management and Technology.

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2014/05/cover_oregon_state_moves_to_fe.html

 

[waggy]

wow..they spent hundreds of millions of dollars and for what? nothing..


The 75,000 Oregonians who have signed up for commercial insurance through Cover Oregon will have to re-enroll in the federal plan.

so those that signed up for Oregon coverage don't' have it? i hope they didn't try to use it.

 

[lamedude]

Oregon suing Oracle this should be interesting.

 

[theeedude]

Federal government is better than states in these sorts of things. It has the economies of scale.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

...If you think that these exchanges are a mess...just wait until you see what a mess real laissez-faire capitalist health care would look like. The courts will be clogged full of wrongful death lawsuits after sick people get their health insurance revoked by death panels based on obscure text in small print buried on page 658 of a 1200 page contract. The pre-Obamacare system was also a huge mess (as is the current system) with hundreds of thousands of insurance industry paper-pushers receiving compensation when they don't provide any actual health care, but it doesn't make news headlines because it's not as dramatic as the Cover Oregon computer programming mess.