Oregon Healthcare Website Reported to FBI for Possible Fraud
Cover Oregon, the state health exchange website portal that still doesn’t function, has been reported to the FBI for investigation of possible fraud.
Former Republican Rep. Patrick Sheehan told Fox News Channel’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” on Wednesday that he gave information to the FBI more than a year ago after someone with inside information gave it to him.
Sheehan was on a panel investigating why the website wasn’t working as intended. He said the information he received was so serious he reported it to federal investigators.
According to the allegations, project managers for the site didn’t know how to build a health insurance website but did know how to build fake pages to show the Department of Health and Human Services in order to make HHS officials think they were meeting deadlines.
In fact, none of the deadlines was met and the website still does not work. National Review Online’s John Fund recently told Newsmax the site is in such disrepair it may have to be shut down.
The site was initially touted as a leader among state exchanges, and received $ 220 million in federal funding.
“They were touting this as, this was going to work. We’re going to be first, we’re going to be best,” Sheehan said. “And, really, it was just Baghdad Bob.”
https://www.coveroregon.com/individual/financial-assistance/resultsBased on the income and household information you provided, part or all of your household may be eligible for the Oregon Health Plan (OHP). OHP plan details are not yet available online.
Steve said:they have a link to Browse plans..
then after filling out the form..
https://www.coveroregon.com/individual/financial-assistance/resultsBased on the income and household information you provided, part or all of your household may be eligible for the Oregon Health Plan (OHP). OHP plan details are not yet available online.
really what is the point of having a browse plans option is no plans exist to browse?
how many "years' did they have to get this done?
liberal ingenuity at it's finest.. :shock:
http://www.thelundreport.org/resource/democratic_plans_extend_open_enrollment_offer_subsidies_outside_exchangeDemocratic Plans Extend Open Enrollment, Offer Subsidies Outside Exchange
The governing Democrats debated their plans to fix Cover Oregon with rival Republicans, who had their own ideas of what to do about the health insurance exchange debacle that has cast doubt on the state’s ability to deliver affordable healthcare as promised.
The House Health Committee debated Democratic plans to salvage the Cover Oregon insurance exchange yesterday, hearing several items that would require approval from the federal government to help Oregonians benefit from Obamacare who have been frustrated by the catastrophic rollout of the insurance exchange.
“We’ve had lots of time in this session to beat up on Cover Oregon,” said Rep. Shemia Fagan, the chief sponsor of House Bill 4154. Fagan is a freshman Democrat locked in a tough re-election bid in outer southeast Portland and Clackamas County. “This bill cuts through the politics and gives us all a chance to come through for Oregonians."
HB 4154 extends the open enrollment for Cover Oregon through April, funds a temporary high-risk pool created by Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber, seeks federal subsidies for qualified consumers and small businesses who shopped outside the exchange; gives whistleblower protections to Cover Oregon employees; and allows the governor to wipe clean the board members of the exchange.
“The website still doesn’t work. What happens if the website still doesn’t work by April 30?” he posited.
Cover Oregon lobbyist Dave Barenberg said the exchange has currently enrolled 35,000 people in private plans and 68,000 people in the state’s Medicaid program, the Oregon Health Plan. When the website failed, the exchange switched to paper applications, and now uses a hybrid process, where consumers can buy plans online after their eligibility has been determined through either a paper application
Acting Cover Oregon Director Dr. Bruce Goldberg told legislators last month that the insurance exchange would soon be running a number of tests with information technology contractor Oracle that would determine if the website could go live by the end of the enrollment period in March.
http://www.thelundreport.org/resource/probing_into_the_finances_of_cover_oregon“Today, three years later, the status of Cover Oregon tells a grim tale--the promises were broken, nearly $200 million has disappeared and the Governor was distant and uninterested. In short, Cover Oregon is an abject failure. Cover Oregon has been a pointless waste of taxpayer money, costing thousands of Oregonians their health insurance.
“Cover Oregon spent a million dollars on a Quality Assurance team (Maximus), which raised the alarm with the Governor's Office every month for more than a year. Regrettably for Oregon, the Governor never acted on the reports and the entire Executive Branch ignored the Quality Assurance Team warnings.
"So what can be done now? Instead of admitting that his own gross lack of oversight wasted $200 million of our money and caused this tragedy, the Governor has called for a $228,000 study. This new study is allegedly to determine the cause of the Cover Oregon failure. In reality, it is an effort to save face at taxpayer expense and it is unlikely that a firm hired by the Governor will give an unbiased result. Conveniently, this contractor is not required to disclose the results of its investigation to the legislature or to you, the public.