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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit Friday against Oracle America Inc. and several of its executives over the technology company's role in creating the troubled website for the state's online health insurance exchange.

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Gov. John Kitzhaber said in a telephone interview Thursday that he’s ultimately responsible for the failures of Cover Oregon, the state’s online marketplace for private insurance under the Affordable Care Act. But an independent review released Thursday, he said, shows that the information he was getting about the Cover Oregon project was being filtered in ways that kept him mostly in the dark about the scope of the problems. Kitzhaber can’t avoid accountability, but now the governor needs to press for more information — and, possibly, legal action.

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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.