By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--April 25, 2014
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Democratic Governor John Kitzhaber promised to lead the nation on ObamaCare and he did—from behind. The worst-in-America launch collapsed even harder than Healthcare.gov. The exchange website known as Cover Oregon still hasn't enrolled one person, and the state has spent about $7 million signing up merely 69,000 people manually using paper applications.
An internal audit ordered by Mr. Kitzhaber concludes that Cover Oregon's architects were doomed by multi-agency bureaucratic confusion with no quality control or accountability for results. Investigators at the KATU news station uncovered evidence suggesting that Cover Oregon officials created a fake website to create the illusion of progress for the feds, who made ObamaCare grants that totalled $303 million.What a fiasco. But it's all too typical of what happens when government makes up its mind it can run a market better than the private sector. The entire pretense of ObamaCare was that people couldn't get health insurance without the government stepping in and essentially taking control of the market. So the law obliterated existing markets and made it all but impossible to afford insurance unless you went through the portals created by government - portals that did not have never worked as advertised, and in the case of Cover Oregon, never will. I wonder if the folks in Oregon would like to have their old method of purchasing health insurance back. Ya think?
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