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great job by Oracle screwing Oregon
http://www.oregonlive.com/health/ind...incart_m-rpt-1
Cover Oregon closed one of the sorrier chapters in the history of Oregon state government Friday when it opted to dump its troubled $245 million health insurance exchange in favor of the federal exchange.
The federal exchange doesn't feature many of the bells and whistles Oregon officials had hoped to offer in their in-house system. But the federal exchange works and offers certainty that the Oregon exchange did not.
The Cover Oregon board of directors narrowed their options to two: Continue to pursue the in-house technology with a new primary contractor or go with the federal exchange. Alex Pet , Oregon's new chief information officer, said continuing to plow ahead with the state technology was too risky and too expensive.
Liz Baxter, chair of the Cover Oregon board, said "I don't know that anyone in the room is excited about going down this path. But I think it's the only option." It will be a less integrated process than initially envisioned. For instance, Medicaid customers may have to go through the Oregon Health Authority while Oregonians buying private insurance will go through the federal exchange.
Pet said using the federal technology offers the "lowest risk option." The state knows it works, it can be adapted for use in Oregon in time for the November open-enrollment period and moving to the federal technology is affordable.
Pet is a recent hire by the state. He's proven a strong and influential force in the ongoing debate over the fate of Cover Oregon.
The state will still need to hire a systems integrator, or lead contractor, to adapt the federal system. Who that lead contractor is and even what en y within the state lets the contract is unclear. But it appears it won't be the responsibility of Cover Oregon. "This is a statewide priority at this point," Pet said.
The decision will impact both the existing Cover Oregon customers and its insurance carrier partners. More than 200,000 Oregonians have enrolled, most of them -- about 140,000 -- are Medicaid customers. Cover Oregon enrolled those customers using an alternative manual process it cobbled together after the state exchange proved non-functional.
Cover Oregon has 15 insurance company partners. Most of them already have built their own portals to the federal exchange. But some haven't and have poured considerable resources into customizing their own portal to Oregon's exchange -- the technology that will now be abandoned.
Cover Oregon will have to downsize going forward. Clyde Hamstreet, the private-sector business consultant, said staff reductions will be necessary, though he didn't elaborate or say how many of the 190 employees will be let go. "There's been a lot of criticism of Cover Oregon," he said. "I think it's important we not look at the employees as part of the problem. They are part of the solution."
Cover Oregon has spent about $181 million in its 33-month existence. About 63 percent of went to its information technology contractors like Oracle and Deloitte.
Most of the federal grant money that has funded the operation has been spent.
Great job by the lib s here!
great job by Oracle screwing Oregon
You can all thank Obamacare for screwing things up.
We smart Big Picture ones know the ty, dysfunctional foundation of Obambacare is the for-profit, hyper-complex ripoff aka the US health care racket. The fact that, eg KY,CT,CA, exchanges, worked so well is a small miracle.
The US insurance industry actually wrote the ACA you love to hate for its own profit through its well-paid proxy of Baucus and his hired gun/industry exec/lobbyist Liz Fowler.
Oracle was happy to take Oregon taxpayers' $Ms while delivering broken garbage.
Larry, you make about as much sense as ever.
Smells like poor project management by both Oracle and Oregon.
This.
It's going fine in other states including the biggest, that being Cali.
agreed, but I expect the adored, for-profit mega-corp to bring career, certified project managers to such a huge, important, high-profile, expensive project.
Project mgmt includes intense review, sign-off of the project specification as achievable and within budget before accepting the development.
It seems like one of these public-private projects fails, it's exclusively the fault of the public side. When one (more or less) succeeds, it's exclusively to the credit of the private side.
Oracle doesn't GAF about a black eye. They got their $10Ms in the bank, and have the legal firepower to kill or reduce any suits from Oregon to no-admission handslaps.
you didn't blame lib s!!!111!11!1
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