Great news: Admin will soon take over Oregon’s failed health exchange
This should inspire confidence in Oregonians. Not.Β Via WaPo:
The Obama administration is poised to take over Oregonβs broken insurance exchange, according to officials familiar with the decision, who say that it reflects federal officialsβ conclusion that several state-run marketplaces may be too dysfunctional to fix.
In public, the board overseeing Cover Oregon is scheduled to vote Friday whether to join the federal insurance marketplace that already sells health plans in most of the country under the Affordable Care Act. Behind the scenes, the officials say, federal and Oregon officials already have privately agreed that closing down the system is the best path to rescue the state marketplace, the countryβs only one toΒ fail so spectacularlyΒ that no residents have been able to sign up for coverage online since it opened early last fall.
The collapse of Oregonβs insurance marketplace comes as federal health officials are also focusing intensely on faltering exchanges in two other states, including Maryland.
Because the feds always handle things sooo much better, right?
Read much more on the disaster that is “Cover Oregon” at Hit & Run, which notes that this was once described last spring as the Obama administration’s “favorite exchange.” Β Failure endorses failure, I guess.