Maryland fires Obamacare exchange IT contractor
Some may say it’s a couple of months late and $65 million short, but Maryland finally fired the contractor that designed its botched Obamacare exchange.
But at least they have signed up 33,000 people, unlike the Cover Oregon, which has not signed up a single person (electronically).
Congressmen want probe of Oregon’s Obamacare exchange
“Although the rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been problematic nationwide, no state has had more complications than Oregon,” Walden and the other congressmen wrote. “The state of Oregon’s exchange website, Cover Oregon, has been such a technological failure that the site has been unable to enroll anyone months after the start of the open enrollment period.”
How much has the Cover Oregon fiasco cost taxpayers? Over $160 million…
Malcolm said Cover Oregon has spent at least $160 million to date on the website, which was supposed to be enrolling people in Obamacare insurance plans sold by insurance companies at competitive prices.
The federal government has issued a total of $305 million in grants to Oregon to perform feasibility studies as well as to build, test and operate the exchange. An unknown fraction of those grants have been spent.
Amateur hour is being way too kind. As is incompetence. As a taxpayer I’d like to know how many people have lost their jobs. I feel pretty sure the answer is ‘not enough’.
