Oregon poised to dump own Obamacare website, rely on HealthCare.gov

[FarCenter]

Oregon is moving to ditch its troubled Obamacare website because the software is too costly to fix, seeking instead to join the 30-plus states relying on the federal website HealthCare.gov.

The move expected Friday would be the latest chapter in the saga of technical challenges that have burdened the launch of state-based marketplaces for buying individual insurance coverage under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

First came the opening-day breakdown of the federal gateway that serves most states. Although HealthCare.gov was ridiculed in its early months and still has big hurdles to cross, its performance improved amid a massive rescue effort by techies and crisis managers.

Some states, meanwhile, experienced their own debacles by creating faulty websites by themselves. Oregon’s site was so bad that it hadn’t been able to enroll a single customer as of early March, according to news reports. Enrollees in the state turned to paper forms instead.

Maryland and Massachusetts ended up with sites that also functioned poorly throughout the six-month enrollment process. Those states could end up following Oregon onto the federal website.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0425/Oregon-poised-to-dump-own-Obamacare-website-rely-on-HealthCare.gov

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[dilby]

1. The Oregon system should not have Obama's name in it at all.

The system they made here is a joke and it was made a joke by bad local management and had nothing to do with Obama.