Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Colossal cost of Cover Oregon prompts lawmaker to call for end to spending ($200M spent/0 Enrolled)!

KATU-TV ^ | January 21, 2014 | Chelsa Kopta 

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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