Oregon Panel Recommends Switch to Federal Health Exchange

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/us/politics/oregon-considers-handing-troubled-insurance-exchange-to-us.html?partner=MYWAY&ei=5065&_r=0

By ROBERT PEAR and KIRK JOHNSONAPRIL 24, 2014

With encouragement from the Obama administration, an Oregon panel recommended Thursday that the state scrap the website for its beleaguered health insurance exchange and use the federal marketplace instead.

State officials concluded that it would be much less expensive to use the federal site, HealthCare.gov, than to repair the one built specially for the state, Cover Oregon. The first option would cost $4 million to $6 million, while the second would cost $78 million, state officials said.

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