Thread: ZERO OREGON OBAMACARE ENROLLEES AFTER FOUR MONTHS AND $305 MILLION

ZERO OREGON OBAMACARE ENROLLEES AFTER FOUR MONTHS AND $305 MILLION



by ROBERT WILDE 18 Feb 2014 327 POST A COMMENT

More than four months after its scheduled launch and despite receiving $305 million in federal grants and spending at least $160 million on the website, Cover Oregon has not enrolled anyone.

U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) and other leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote a letter to the General Accountability Office, stating, "The catastrophic breakdown of Cover Oregon is unacceptable, and taxpayers deserve accountability."
The letter notes that the Obamacare federal exchange, HealthCare.gov, and the various state exchanges "have encountered numerous problems." Yet, according to Walden, Cover Oregon, the healthcare exchange for the state of Oregon, may have won the booby prize.
"Although the rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been problematic nationwide, no state has had more complications than Oregon," Walden and the other congressmen wrote. "Oregon's state exchange website, Cover Oregon, has been such a technological failure that even now, months after the start of the open enrollment period, the site is unable to enroll anyone."
It is likely the GAO probe will be granted, considering that GAO staff workers helpedCongressman Walden craft the wording of the letter. According to a GAO spokesman, this is believed to be the first time legislators have asked for a federal investigation of an Obamacare exchange run by an individual state.
When CNBC asked Ariane Holm, a Cover Oregon spokeswoman, for an explanation of the website failure, she responded, "We are aware of this and have no further comment."
On the other hand, Walden had plenty to say. "This is an embarrassment for the state to have a website like this that doesn't function, he told The Bulletin, an Oregon newspaper. "It's extraordinary mismanagement."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ro-Enrollments

Bad News For Democrats: Obamacare Opposition Remains Near All-Time High

March 20, 2014 by Personal Liberty News Desk

Democrats up for re-election in 2014 are trying their best to pretend that Obamacare never happened as the party leadership continues to urge them to embrace the healthcare law. But the results of a new survey out from Pew Research makes clear that running on—not away from—Obamacare could bring about big losses for politicians on the left.
As the President’s healthcare overhaul nears its four-year anniversary, Pew reports that opposition to Obamacare, at 53 percent, remains near an all-time high. Meanwhile, 41 percent of Americans say they approve of the law.
For Democrats, perhaps the most troubling finding in the latest Pew numbers is that Obamacare approval remains virtually unchanged from six months ago when the rollout of the President’s plan was producing daily headlines about major policy and technical issues.
Republicans who have offered plans to re-work Obamacare with conservative addendums, rather than scrapping the law altogether, get some good news in the report. Forty-percent of Republicans, 17 percent of Democrats and 36 percent of independents who disapprove of Obamacare said that they would like politicians to find a way to fix it rather than making it fail.
But, Pew notes, the Nation’s most conservative voters are still firmly opposed to Obamacare, “Nearly all Republicans and Republican leaners who agree with the Tea Party disapprove of the law (97%) and 60% want elected officials to try to make it fail. A large majority of non-Tea Party Republicans (81%) also oppose the law, but just 25% want politicians to try to make it fail.”
The full Pew results can be viewed here.


http://personalliberty.com/2014/03/2...all-time-high/