Obamacare Exchange 'Cover Oregon' Collapses in Failure

Breitbart ^ | 24 Apr 2014 | Dan Riehl

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Breitbart News and others have chronicled the "Unmatched failure" that Cover Oregon has now officially become. As was pointed out on March 20 of this year, "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."

Oregon was even given "a $48 million "early innovator" grant for states whose exchanges were intended to serve as models for the nation." While the money was spent, clearly, that promised was never fulfilled.

State officials may finally be coming to grips with the idea that they have failed completely. It looks like the exchange will be closed down and turned over to the feds. Perhaps fittingly, the White House's favorite exchange will be turned over to the White House.

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I was hoping they might try to use a Freiden Calculator.

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Wow that brings back memories.

I used one of those as a college intern back in 1966 working in a manufacturing plant tabulating production costs.

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It was always fun to make it go for a divide by zero and then walk away for a while to see if anyone got annoyed and turned it off.

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The Oregon Obamacare exchange has received $305 million in taxpayer-funded federal grants

Whew. That's a relief!

At least it isn't going to cost the Oregon taxpayers anything. It is 'free' money!

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Most of the money was wasted on salaries for work that will be tossed, but a significant fraction went to political pals of those in power who owned the companies and didn’t give a crap if the project succeeded or failed as long as they were guaranteed a good skim off the top of the funds.

Reads almost like the Mission Statement for Obamacare...................

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...and our Guv (here in Oregon) says he knew nothing about how badly things were going (with his “pet” project)!! Remember he's a doctor and he was going to make this the model for every other state exchange.
What CEO would make a statement like that (”I didn't know what was happening”) and expect to keep their job.
We Oregonians are idiots.....rather 50%+ of us are idiots as we allow this ninny to be reelected!

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Please tell me that’s a spoof...

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Major Hasan or Minor Hussein II

What difference does it make now?

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Not a spoof at all.
Here’s the announcement direct from their propaganda channel:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/obamacare-ads-colorado_n_4261448.html

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Looks like they’re still around, LOL
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Friden-STW-10-Calculator-/181388825638?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item2a3b9dd426

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I don’t know about Mission Statement, but it might as well be. Why select CGI, who had underperformed in Canada on the gun registry and gotten fired?

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That is impressive. I expected ObamaCare to be a catastrophic failure, and I expected the exchanges to be terrible, but to enroll 4,000 illegal immigrants and not even one real Oregon citizen demonstrates an amazing level of incompetence and corruption, even by liberal standards.

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