SALEM — Oregon’s Gov. John Kitzhaber asked for a shake-up of Cover Oregon’s top leadership Thursday after an independent investigation found that state managers had repeatedly failed to heed reports about problems that prevented the online health insurance exchange from launching on time.
A group of 22 middle school students and two adults from Tsuruta, Hood River’s sister city in Japan, are in town this week for the program’s annual spring exchange visit.
PORTLAND — More than five months after Oregon’s botched health-insurance exchange failed to go live, concern is mounting for another, less visible state IT project that was built in conjunction with the exchange, using the same technology.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — She wears a black headscarf instead of a cap. But otherwise Col. Jamila Bayaz looks like any other district police chief in Afghanistan as she reviews checkpoints in the center of Kabul.
To the editor: Let’s review the situation with CoverOregon health exchange website: 1. It doesn’t work. 2. Washington’s health exchange website does. 3. Oregon is withholding the final $18 million of a $90 million contract to Oracle, until it gets the site to work. 4. Einstein said the definition of insanity was trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
