$200 million spent ... not one person enrolled ... but that doesn't matter because they're wasting federal money instead of state funds!
Posted on 01/21/2014 10:28:57 AM PST by Zakeet
The On Your Side Investigators revealed the colossal cost of Cover Oregon for the first time Monday and it shows how much of your tax money has been spent on the failed website.
KATU learned Cover Oregon and the Oregon Health Authority collectively spent just shy of $200 million on its Cover Oregon website, which has been plagued with problems for months and still hasn't enrolled a single Oregonian for health insurance since the site launched Oct. 1, 2013.
The state health insurance exchange's top dogs have been back and forth for months, extending the date when the website likely could be fixed. As of last week, Cover Oregon's interim director, Bruce Goldberg, said there's no specific deadline for when the website will be fully operational.
Lawmakers, like Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend, are growing impatient.
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"It's an enormous amount of money expended over a couple of years to build a website that doesn't work," Conger told KATU in a Skype interview Monday. "It doesn't make sense to throw good money after bad and just waste that money on something that is ultimately, maybe doomed to fail."
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$200 million spent ... not one person enrolled ... but that doesn't matter because they're wasting federal money instead of state funds!
“It doesn’t make sense to throw good money after bad and just waste that money on something that is ultimately, maybe doomed to fail.”
You mean like this failing experiement called a,’Representative Republic?’ ;)
$200 mil for an inoperative website. For that much money I’ll tattoo the ones and zeros to my arm and travel door-to-door. Low bandwidth is better than no bandwidth.
Politicians NOT spend money? Does not compute........
Oregon ping...
Every Republican in the state should be screaming about this.
Burn baby burn.
Interesting how these articles systematically avoid mention of the contractor paid to do the work, Larry Ellison’s Oracle.
This state blew 200 million, the fed gov, all total? 800 million? Other states another total 2-500 million?
And this was the affordable way to insure about 30 million uninsured? Instead about that number have lost their polices?
And our GOPe have proven to be willing conspirators by not stopping this crap?
Has our government sunk so low to waste so much money to cause so much harm, why?
And our GOPe traitors want to legalize the illegals?
Is this a bad dream? Was I transported to some alternate universe?
Just think...for that much, they could have trained 200 new MD’s for Oregon, who they could employ for lower than average MD costs as payment for the education like the BIA does for Indian healthcare; typically for 2 to 5 years depending on the loan amount.
But that would involve thinking.
“Every Republican in the state should be screaming about this.”
Yea. Both of them........
I remember this story too.
former State Legislator Jane Cease. Cease had served 13 years in the State Legislature when she was appointed to run the State’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). During her tenure, Cease approved spending more than $70 million in cost overruns on a new computer system for the Agency. The system never worked, and the cost ballooned from an original $50 million price tag to $123 million, and was eventually scrapped – a total loss for taxpayers. Despite this epic failure, Cease requested and was given another high-paying government job. Under Oregon law, Ms. Cease’s 13 years in the Legislature will be credited as though she were paid at her highest three-year government salary during that time.
You mean like this failing experiment called ‘Democracy’.
Our ‘Representative Republic’, under what was a Constitutional Republic, did quite well until our Socialism veering in the early 1900’s
The donkeys are going to put “The Onion” out of business.
If true, that's curious....Ellison was (and probably is) a huge backer of Obama.
It’s most certainly true.
When a nation dies its leaders always resort to doing the wrong things as often as possible. It is the path to national ruin and has been followed fervently for millennia.
Oregon requires a balanced budget every 2 years.
I suspect they will try and push this off till after 2014 and then the 200M bill will show up.
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