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OR Obamacare Online Enrollment System Still Doesn’t Work 3 Months After It Was Supposed To Launch
CBS DC ^

Posted on 01/13/2014 6:32:28 PM PST by matt04

Gov. John Kitzhaber said Thursday the state has hired a firm to conduct an independent review of what went wrong with Oregon’s troubled health insurance exchange.

Several states and the federal government have struggled with exchange technology, but none as much as Oregon. Cover Oregon’s online enrollment system still doesn’t work more than three months after it was supposed to launch, and the state has hired or reassigned hundreds of workers to manually process applications. Officials say they hope the online system will be operational by March.

The state will pay First Data Government Solutions LP $228,000 to conduct the review, which is expected to begin later this month and take about six weeks. The review seeks to determine when officials began to realize the website wouldn’t launch on time; why the state chose to use Oracle Corp. products and consulting services; how the project’s scope was determined; and who was responsible for making decisions about the project.

(Excerpt) Read more at washington.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: obamcare
Full title: Oregon’s Obamacare Online Enrollment System Still Doesn’t Work More Than 3 Months After It Was Supposed To Launch
1 posted on 01/13/2014 6:32:28 PM PST by matt04
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To: matt04

What’s another 200K+ down the hole to figure out why it failed.


2 posted on 01/13/2014 6:33:04 PM PST by matt04
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To: matt04

“Doesn’t work”, now that’s really, really racist.


3 posted on 01/13/2014 6:34:14 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: matt04
The description sounds like a search for someone to blame, NOT a way to fix the problem

I know- I write software for a living

There is NO WAY to ‘fix’ a multimillion dollar software fiasco with $200K and questions about ‘who decided this or that’

IT has been my experience that it costs TWICE AS MUCH to ‘fix’ a broken software system than it would to re-write it from scratch.

Because in order to fix it you have to first try to understand what you have- which is nearly impossible when the system is this broken

4 posted on 01/13/2014 6:49:16 PM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Salvation

Oregon Ping....we made the news again...wonder if they know about the “auditor” that they didn’t listen to, and so have now hired ANOTHER auditor????


5 posted on 01/13/2014 6:49:40 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: matt04

give peace a chance Matt


6 posted on 01/13/2014 6:53:00 PM PST by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe (yup, I belong))
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To: matt04

but “The Credible Juan Williams” said that millions and millions crashed the system in early October. wouldn’t that mean that by now 10 million people would of signed up?


7 posted on 01/13/2014 7:13:12 PM PST by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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To: matt04

Incredible.

I think the FReepers in Oregon could make this work!


8 posted on 01/13/2014 7:25:24 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: matt04; goodnesswins; PROCON; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; Hieronymus

If you would like more information about Oregon, please FReepmail me. I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed last month.

9 posted on 01/13/2014 7:26:16 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: matt04

Hey Larry Ellison: Looks like it’s about time to stop sailing, get back to the office and prepare some serious CYA.

POS!


10 posted on 01/13/2014 7:30:21 PM PST by upchuck (My Internet addiction is so bad... it's alt of ctrl.)
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To: Mr. K

Major bump. You got it exactly right. Been there done that before retirement. Now, reading about all these cases of trouble make me want to take a nap :)


11 posted on 01/13/2014 7:36:31 PM PST by upchuck (My Internet addiction is so bad... it's alt of ctrl.)
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To: matt04

Oregon voted for Obama in both elections, and yet they refuse to create a properly working Obamacare website. What a bunch of hypocrites!


12 posted on 01/13/2014 8:33:51 PM PST by grundle
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