Oregon Obamacare website cost $300 million in tax dollars, 0 enrollees, as in none.

Townhall.com ^ | March 23, 2014 | Nick Sorrentino

[Kaslin]

I can barely put 2 pieces of code together but I’ll bet I could have made a website which enrolled at least one person at this point. Well I could have hired someone anyway. Oregon couldn’t even do that.

(From Breitbart.com)

Rep. Jason Conger, the other Republican on the panel, says officials in charge including executive director Rocky King, who left his job in December, should have known better than to try to pull off a project of this scope without hiring an IT contractor to run it. “I think it reflects a certain amount of arrogance that it could be done in the timeframe, that it could be done at all,” Conger said.

But others on the panel tried to emphasize the positive. Democratic Rep. Mitch Greenlick suggested it was time to move forward saying ,“We’re trying to get things solved and I think trying to find out who is the bad guy is probably over.”

Yeah no reason to find out who’s to blame for this massive waste of other people’s money. That was then. This is now. “What does it matter?”

But Oregonians did get this really cool promotional video for Obamacare. And I mean that. It’s pretty cool. Not $300 million cool. But cool.

Cover Oregon: "Fly With Your Own Wings" - Dave Depper

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[laweeks]

None as in nada?

[laweeks]

Hy, what difference does it make?

[wetgundog]

$300 million WASTED! Are there not Oregonians that are mad as hell about this sheer waste, not withstanding getting their Health insurance ruined or cancelled??

[P.O.E.]

When the military wastes money on missiles and readiness and stuff (/s), the outcry is that the money should have been spent feeding the hungry children or some such.

[FreeperCell]

No.

[FreeperCell]

Libs did it.

[C210N]

With a population of 4 million, figuring a typical family of 4...

That is $300 per family, down the tubes. Thrown out the window.

If Oregon taxes at 5% of income, an Oregon family would have had to earn with their hard sweat $6000 in gross income to pay for that $300 to be shredded.

[lepton]

“We’re trying to get things solved and I think trying to find out who is the bad guy is probably over.”

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You know...before we clearly identify one.

[COBOL2Java]

You don’t understand! For a Liberal, the only thing that matters are the good intentions! To try to judge success or failure on actual RESULTS is mean!

[South40]

Keep Portland Weird Sick!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I know 3 people who make websites, one who does data sites and none of them can figure out how these people can justify charging millions of dollars, and what was the cost of the main ObamaScam ™ website? Something like $600 million? And still it didn't work? This is a prime example of how easy it is to rip off the government, so you can just imagine the amount of scamming that is going to go on through insurance claims. They just had an article a few days ago of a podiatrist here in New York ripping off to the tune of $175,000 for a 30 minute treatment and the insurance company accidentally sent the check to the patient.

http://nypost.com/2014/03/23/mom-says-insurance-giant-stiffed-daughter-over-treatment/

[crazyhorse691]

It's an election year. As the voting date moves closer the media will cover this story less and less until the over-educated progressives in the Willamette Valley will just see it as an honest mistake made for an admirable cause and then Dr. No will be reelected by 53% of the voters. And the really ironic thing is that that 300million would have covered the cost of every school bond measure to be voted on this year. And the leftover would cover the operating budgets of the counties cutting there sheriffs dept. because of the drastic drop in timber sharing money. Oregon is screwed.

[crazyhorse691]

I got a little excited and meant to say that the leftover money would cover the Sheriffs budget of those counties.

[Disambiguator]

The Oregon site is proportionately far more expensive than Healthcare.gov. The feds spent a bit more than twice as much as the silly little state of Oregon on their non-functional web site.

It’s pretty obvious that there is massive money laundering going on, and some Democrats are well stocked with cash for upcoming campaigns.

[kvanbrunt2]

I paid $125 for my ecommerce site. and Just paid $100 to get the postage calculators working. maybe i should run obamacare. If i were running it i would make sure it didn’t work but would have a private alternative.

[steve86]

None as in nada?

None through the Oracle-developed website except for some journalist accounts that were done at a dog and pony show to demonstrate how well it "worked".

But many enrollments through paper applications.

[steve86]

Cover Oregon investigation: Conflict, no leadership and no accountability

[steve86]

If Oregon taxes at 5% of income, an Oregon family would have had to earn with their hard sweat $6000 in gross income to pay for that $300 to be shredded.

This was a federal grant. Everyone paid for it.

[ronnie raygun]

300 million was intended to pay off criminal ops during past elections and to support fellow commies in the senate race.