Technology group to decide Cover Oregon’s future

Associated Press ^ | Apr 24, 2014 2:25 AM EDT | Gosia Wozniacka

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After weeks of deliberation, a committee is poised to make a final recommendation Thursday on what to do with Oregon’s botched health insurance exchange portal.

The technology committee will decide whether Cover Oregon should ditch its glitch-filled website and replace it with the federal government’s health insurance marketplace, or try to fix the existing system with the help of a new IT contractor.

The decision comes nearly seven months after Oregon’s exchange was supposed to go live so that residents could use it to compare and buy health insurance plans. Cover Oregon’s website is seen as the worst of the more than a dozen state-developed exchanges; Oregon was the only state to receive a monthlong enrollment extension. …

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This is life in a country where every facet of government is for sale. The laws, contracts, policies, subsidies, taxes, and even enforcement are all available for the right contribution to the right politician. Some of those politicians are taking large sums of money for their own use, but many more can be bought for paltry amounts into a campaign coffer.