Discussion for article #221988
Yes, the website failed to work as intended, the contractor being the primary culprit…however, the Cover Oregon phone lines and email and fax all worked great for me–in fact I just received my insurance card and documents in the mail today!
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The website is a disaster but that has nothing to do with Obamacare despite Rinsed Penis’s desperately panting attempt to hang this around Governor Kitzhaber and Senator Merkely’s neck.
Oregonians were able to sign up, it’s just that they had to sign up just as they would have twenty years ago before the www.
The people responsible for the project are all long since removed from their positions. Oracle will not suffer since they’re pretty much a monopoly when it comes to enterprise DBMS and CRM.
It’ll be great to have all the drama swept aside so Cover Oregon can focus on enrolling folks who need insurance.
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Even with a dead website (thanks to private contractor Oracle) we still managed to get to 83.83% (63,079) of targeted exchange private heath plans sign-ups. That doesn’t even count the Medicaid expansion, under 26ers, etc.
Oregon will use the Federal Exchange. Oracle is out with reputation burned. Tonight, CBS news reported on this occurrence in a way that made Oregon appear a failure regards ACA. But then, who expects detailed information from the TV Media operations these days. Lazy journalism at its worst.