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OSPIRG Urges State Mandate, New Exchange To Boost Insurance Enrollment

Apr 17, 2019

New Cover Oregon Error May Put State on Hook for $74 Million in Overpayments

An examination of records by the new leadership at the Oregon Health Authority discovered that an error in the Cover Oregon process caused the state to categorize older, Medicare-eligible adults in the Medicaid expansion.

Nov 1, 2017

DCBS Asks For Options to Well-Running Federal Website Due to Cost

A high cost estimate for the continued use of the federal health exchange has led the Department of Consumer & Business Services to consider other options, but consumers and insurance brokers might have good reason to be skeptical of the state abandoning a smooth-running federal website for another state-based website.

Dec 11, 2015

Cover Oregon Officials May be Called to DC

The Lund Report received a query recently from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Jun 24, 2015

Bill Dissolving Cover Oregon Heads to Governor, Over Oracle Complaints

Oracle, the much-maligned software company that failed to build a functional insurance exchange for Oregon, has threatened to stop Senate Bill 1 from taking effect, but the bill had broad bipartisan support in the House to move the remaining state insurance exchange functions to the Department of Consumer & Business Services.

Mar 2, 2015

Senate Votes To Dissolve Cover Oregon; Move Healthcare Marketplace To DCBS

Feb 19, 2015

Just Five Days Left to Enroll in Health Insurance

Over 94,000 Oregonians Have Successfully Enrolled Using HealthCare.gov

Feb 12, 2015

What’s next after Cover Oregon? Ariel West Mon, 02/09/2015 - 16:17

OHSU president urges caution at Oregon Health Policy Board meeting as legislature moves quickly to dissolve the health insurance exchange.

Dr. Joe Robertson, the president of Oregon Health & Science University, sounded a cautionary note last week about the future oversight of the state’s health insurance exchange.

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Senate to Vote to Dissolve Cover Oregon as Early as Next Week

State plans to continue use of the federal website, but other functions will still be housed in the Department of Consumer & Business Services. The drafters of Senate Bill 1 have proposed language to make it clear that despite closing the independent agency, Oregon still maintains enough control over its insurance exchange to withstand a potentially fatal blow from the Supreme Court to Obamacare in most of the country.

Feb 5, 2015