Several states and the federal government have struggled with exchange technology, but none as much as Oregon. Cover Oregon’s online enrollment system still doesn’t work more than three months after it was supposed to launch, and the state has hired or reassigned hundreds of workers to manually process applications. Officials say they hope the online system will be operational by March.
What went wrong? Don’t worry, the state is spending $228,000 for an independent review of all the errors. “Which,” the AP reports, “is expected to begin later this month and take about six weeks.”
