Rhode Island's health insurance exchange is going bankrupt. Health Source RI officials were so desperate to get young people to enroll, that they prepared a "nag app" so that parents would pressure their (adult) children to purchase overpriced, underserving health insurance.
After millions of dollars, Maryland lawmakers have abandoned Maryland Health Connect and have adopted the Connecticut platform.
Massachusetts is still tangling with its own Obamacare website, even though the Commonwealth had its own state-sponsored health insurance mandate, which was working well without the interloping of the federal government.
Now Oregon has nothing but frustration and embarrassment in its wake following the failed rollout of its state health insurance exchange: Cover Oregon.
| Gov. John Kitzhaber |
Except instead of covering Oregon residents, the botched health insurance exchange has exposed the state to massive debt and loss.
An emergency physician before representing the Beaver State for three terms (and seeking a fourth this year), Kitzhaber had dismissed the health exchange manager, yet for all his efforts, there was no recovering the pulse for the dying health insurance website, which did not enroll one person on line.
Aside from more people taking on Medicaid, Obamacare was one big bummer.
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber had little comfort to offer his constituents following the $200 million waste.
Oregon is switching over the federal exchange.
With all the money frittered away on the progressive pipe dream of centrally enforced health insurance, one has to wonder how many doctors, nurses, and hospitals that money could have provided for.