Ah, these were the days:

Governor Kitzhaber today received notice that Oregon’s health system transformation has been accepted as a model to be used in others states. To that end, Oregon was awarded up to $45 million in a State Innovation Model grant by the federal Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. The grant is designed to support states taking innovative approaches to improving health and lowering costs across the health care system, including Medicaid, Medicare, and the private sector. Oregon was one of six states to receive the grant

http://www.thelundreport.org/resource/or...re_improvements

Innovative it most certainly was as the OR exchange has yet to sign up one single, solitary individual. None, nada, zilch, nil, zero, etc., etc.

So how to deal with this disaster? Remove the company supposedly responsible but not the politicians who were really in charge.

Oracle Corp., the giant technology company at the center of the Cover Oregon controversy, has significantly downsized its army of software developers trying to salvage Oregon’s health insurance exchange website.

What that means for the Oregon exchange -- which has been plagued by bugs and remains largely unfinished -- is an open question. Exchange acting director Bruce Goldberg did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday afternoon.

In the past week about 100 Oracle employees have peeled off the Cover Oregon project, leaving approximately 65 in place. State officials have repeatedly blamed its failed health exchange website on Oracle’s shoddy work and missed deadlines.

Though the state had stopped paying Oracle, the two sides kept an uneasy truce, with the company essentially agreeing to fix the most serious bugs for free, documents show. Now, however, the remaining Oracle employees will, according to multiple sources, work only on maintenance and operations. That means that the company’s work on finishing the site has largely ceased -- whether permanently or not remains unclear.

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.s...#incart_m-rpt-2

Not to worry, however, my friends. The Liberal dolts who infest OR (Portland and environs) will learn exactly nothing from this and will continue to elect people like Kitzhaber.