Washington Post: Feds Will Take Over Cover Oregon

Gov. John Kitzhaber
By NIGEL JAQUISS

The Washington Post is reporting that federal officials have decided to take control of Oregon's failed health insurance exchange, Cover Oregon.

The report comes as state officials are considering options laid out in a report from the consulting and accounting firm, Deloitte. In broad terms, the choices are to continue to try to build an Oregon system, which Deloitte has said will cost more than $25 million and take more than a year; or, to give up on an Oregon solution and spend $4 million to $6 million to switch over to the federal health insurance exchange.

Cover Oregon officials have been expected to make that decision at a meeting on April 25. But the Post, citing unnamed sources, says the decision has already been made in Washington.

A Cover Oregon spokeswoman told The Post that's not true.

Here's part of the report:



Meanwhile, the New York Times is also reporting that the panel has decided to hand over the exchange to the feds:

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