Oregon Dissolves Its Disastrous ObamaCare Exchange
The demise of Cover Oregon is a sobering lesson in allowing statists to seize power with a bunch of big promises and phony cost projections.
The demise of Cover Oregon is a sobering lesson in allowing statists to seize power with a bunch of big promises and phony cost projections.
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced his resignation Friday over a deepening influence-peddling scandal surrounding his fiancee and on the same day the U.S. Attorney’s Office issued a subpoena demanding records and electronic communications pertaining to the pair.
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber resigned Friday, giving in to mounting pressure to abandon his office amid suspicions that his fiancee used her relationship with him to land contracts for her green-energy consulting business.
Oregon Democrats are jumping ship in defending scandal-plagued Gov. John Kitzhaber as calls for his resignation intensify, reports the Associated Press. Influence-peddling allegations and a series of alarming clean energy cronyism allegations surrounding his controversial fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, have Kitzhaber
Republican Massachusetts Governor-elect Charlie Baker said he would oppose current Democrat Governor Deval Patrick’s proposal to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. “I don’t support issuing driver’s licenses to people who are undocumented,” Baker reportedly said on the Boston Herald’s
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber’s (D) fiancée–Cylvia Hayes–admits to having a secret marriage and jointly buying land for “an illegal marijuana grow operation.” On October 9 she admitted to the secret marriage which lasted “from 1997 to 2001” and, following her
On Thursday, Oregon’s first lady Cylvia Hayes, the fiancee of Democrat Gov. John Kitzhaber, revealed that she illegally married an 18-year-old Ethopian immigrant when she was 29 years of age in exchange for $5,000 so that the immigrant would not
A funny thing happened on the way to the Governor’s mansion for Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber’s wife, Cylvia Hayes. While Hayes told Kitzhaber about two previous marriages, she failed to mention a third. And it looks like it was a
The FBI is investigating the busted Oregon Obamacare exchange which received $305 million in taxpayer-funded federal grants yet failed to enroll a single Oregonian online. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI investigation has already begun conducting interviews with
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon, once expected to be a national leader in the federal health care overhaul, on Thursday moved to become the first state to dump its troubled online health exchange and use the federal marketplace instead. A
Obamacare is so politically toxic it’s giving new hope to top Republican officials in Oregon, a state where Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney by almost 12 points and only one Republican is in the state’s congressional delegation. “As Oregonians, we
The debacle of the “Cover Oregon” website may be the biggest healthcare scandal you’ve never heard about. Cover Oregon is the name of the state health insurance exchange for The Beaver State. The name is now synonymous with perhaps the
KATU: SALEM, Ore. – Cover Oregon director Bruce Goldberg has resigned, Gov. John Kitzhaber said during his press conference on Thursday at which he released the results of an investigation into the troubled website. Goldberg, who was head of the
The Oregon Obamacare exchange has received $305 million in taxpayer-funded federal grants, spent $160 million on its busted website, dropped $10 million on hipster promotional ads, erroneously enrolled 4,000 illegal immigrants in full Oregon Health Plan coverage contrary to federal
On Thursday, the Obama administration quietly announced it will allow consumers in states with busted Obamacare websites to retroactively bag taxpayer-funded insurance subsidies, even if they purchased health insurance outside the Obamacare marketplace. The move by the Obama administration will
KATU: PORTLAND, Ore. – In a brief interview with KATU in early January, Gov. John Kitzhaber made an incredible claim about the failed launch of Cover Oregon’s website. “In late October was when I first learned about the problems,” Kitzhaber
KATU Exclusive Interview: PORTLAND, Ore. – Gov. John Kitzhaber’s staff hastily ended his scheduled one-on-one interview with KATU News on Thursday morning barely four minutes after it had begun when KATU began asking about problems with Cover Oregon’s website. Kitzhaber
Oregon voters have successfully delayed the implementation of a state law that would give illegal immigrants driver’s licenses when enough of them signed a petition to put the issue on the ballot in the November 2014 elections. The law, which
Jeff Mapes in The Oregonian: At the behest of Service Employees International Union, Oregon Senate budget chief Richard Devlin sought to stifle criticism of an organizing drive that added more than 7,700 workers to the union’s membership and turned it