#Obamacare Chronicles: yet more flaming wrecks

**Posted by Phineas

"Obamacare has arrived"
“Obamacare has arrived”

Jim Geraghty brings us more debris samples from the flaming wreckage that is Obamacare. You can read them for yourself, but here’s one of the best:

But perhaps Maryland’s mess looks good compared toΒ Oregon, where the accusations of lying are piling up:

Carolyn Lawson, the IT expert who tried and failed to build Oregon’s online insurance exchange, complained to an Oregon Health Authority official that she was forced to leave under false pretenses in an email uncovered by the On Your Side Investigators.

Lawson emailed OHA chief operating officerΒ Suzanne Hoffman in January to complain that a reporter had been given her personal cell phone number, and asked that the state β€œallow me to move on with privacy and grace,” after one of the worst health-care-exchange website launches in the nation left her career in tatters.??β€œI have done everything I have been asked to do,” Lawson wrote. β€œI stuck to the talking points even though I protestedΒ .Β .Β .Β that they were not accurate. I walked away quietly when asked to resign. I wrote the resignation letter per the script I was given.”??

KATU Investigators recently uncovered major accountability issues on Lawson’s watch, and former Republican state representative Patrick Sheehan told KATU earlier this month that he’d gone to the FBI with allegations Cover Oregon project managers initiated the design of dummy web pages to convince the federal government the project was further along than it actually was.

Why do I have a feeling this one is going to end up in court, with Lawson (and probably several others) pleading to turn state’s evidence in return for a deal? Is it perhaps because a bill passed in a corrupt (1) manner can only leave corruption in its wake?

Excellent job, Democrats! You’ve earned every bit of what the public is going to give you in November.

Footnote:
(1) Ethically, if not legally.

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

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