Posted on 01/21/2014 4:12:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There still isn’t much in the way of good news for ObamaCare proponents coming out of Oregon, a state that was once so eagerly confident in their collective ability to deliver an exchange that was supposed to be a model of ease and efficiency for insurance-seeking Oregonians. Their exchange’s price tag upon the October launch date was sitting somewhere around $160 million, but the website has yet to successfully process a single customer, and the administration has since burned through another $40 million of their allotted $305 million from the federal government scrambling to fix it, according to one local news report. Last week, the program’s interim chief Bruce Goldberg even admitted that eventually scrapping the whole thing isn’t out of the question if things don’t start to drastically improve:
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Oof. Over the weekend, The Oregonian published a damningly detailed piece recounting the many ways in which the longstanding signs of pending failure were blithely glossed over as the site’s leaders wavered between “despair and an almost evangelical enthusiasm that they could complete the site”:
Amid the idealistic fervor of Oregon’s effort to build a game-changing health insurance exchange, Ying Kwong did not believe the hype.
In one of a series of revealing emails, the Cornell-educated technology analyst at Oregon’s Department of Administrative Services wrote last May that Cover Oregon‘s managers were being “intellectually dishonest” in claiming the project would be ready Oct. 1.
He likened it to the old sci-fi movie classic, “The Blob,” since their foe seemingly couldn’t be stopped due to its amorphous plans and political momentum. “You simply don’t know how to shoot this beast, because it does not have a known anatomy with the normal vital organs that make it tick.”
Kwong wasn’t alone. His concerns about Oregon’s exchange were echoed by the project’s quality assurance contractor as well as the man Kwong was writing to, the Legislature’s top IT oversight analyst.
Repeated warnings, however, even to senior officials in the governor’s office and elsewhere and multiple layers of intended oversight, went unheeded. Winning.
When this pos program fails so badly that it dies from its own weight... and when the cost to the tax payer is in excess of 5 trillion dollars... with nothing to show for it... no one... and especially not obama of obamacare... will be held responsible. All of this failure and this stupid republic will vote in hildebeast666 as our next president... and nazi peloser will once again yield the hammer in the House. harry roid will gain seats... bank on it. The more America suffers... the more they like it. The gop/e will celebrate with their overlords in private. Sorry but I have to vent.
Oregon has lots of enrollments, just not through the website.
Also, why no mention of the website/database contractor, Oracle?
What we are seeing is the last great feast of the pigs.
Oregon and Washington State are just “well-dressed” mini-Marxist states, while California is the “tie-dyed T-Shirt, swimming pants and flipflop” Marxist hippy state. That is why the West Coast is called the Left Coast.
What you see is what you should expect from the reds. Just another “Five Year Plan” that didn’t work.
Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington don’t at all fit the stereotype you’re describing.
The Left Coast starts at the ridgeline summit of the Cascades range.
Much of rural California doesn’t either.
I an article linked to this one, it is revealed that Oregon was being billed between $140 and $350 per hour for each Oracle contractor. This is how Oracle makes money, I know it well. If there wasn’t any deadline, they the project would stretch on for years, with more and more people added by Oracle.....until the client runs out of money or patience.
“$305 million from the Federal government”
Ladies and gentlemen, we be paying for this. They don’t care if it works or not. Lots of Oregon government employees down there in Vegas drinking champagne and thanking the people of Kansas for the suite they bought them.
I sure remember when Bush was president. Every other word in the newscasts was Halliburton.
No gubmint program is ever a failure.
It’s just ‘underfunded’.
It’s who runs the state that defines the state. E. Oregon and Washington are conservative but the shit stinks in Portland and Evergreen and Seattle and Olympia.
These numbers really are larger than jail time.
They are feasting on us... and it hurts!
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