© Washington Examiner
The state's exchange had the fewest sign-ups in the nation, according to a new report today by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The weak number of sign-ups undercuts two major defenses of Obamacare from its supporters.
One defense was that state-based exchanges were performing a lot better than the federal healthcare.gov website servicing 36 states. But Oregon's website problems have forced the state to rely on paper applications to sign up participants.
Another defense of the Obama administration has attributed the troubled rollout of Obamacare to the obstruction of Republican governors who wanted to see the law fail as well as a lack of funding.
But Oregon is a Democratic state that embraced Obamacare early and enthusiastically. Its outreach effort, which included a folk-style music video featuring a singer playing an acoustic guitar against a colorful and scenic backdrop, had been praised among the law's supporters.
And the more than $300 million in federal grant money the state received to build and promote its exchange topped all but two other states - the much more populous New York and California.
I really hope that this fraud care will fail. I am currently without health care, but will NOT be standing in line willingly for any of those sicko's in Washington. Cheers for Oregon!
I was shocked that they rolled this out at the same time the government shut down and people still signed up. Those fools can not even take care of what they are suppose to take care of and yet folks will sign away their health to them to look over? Insanity.......... pure insanity.
And then the site did not even work. Hold on lemmings, we will have the cliff fixed soon, we only need to put a few more million into it before you can jump.