Long after announced 'resignation,' ex-Cover Oregon director Bruce Goldberg draws $14,425 monthly salary

He was the highest profile casualty of Oregon's health insurance exchange disaster.  Bruce Goldberg, the respected, long-time director of the Oregon Health Authority, offered to resign on March 18. Two days later, with the Cover Oregon tech mess going from bad to worse, Gov. John Kitzhaber announced that he'd shown Goldberg the door.

The resignation was "effective immediately," said officials in the governor's office.

Or so we thought.

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US Subpoenas Oregon Insurance Website Documents

The governor's office says federal prosecutors have subpoenaed state records for a grand jury investigation of the troubled Cover Oregon health insurance website.  The state abandoned its plans for an independent site after it didn't work. They decided to switch to the federal portal, the first state to do so. The governor's office released subpoenas Tuesday issued by the U.S. attorney's office.

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Thousands have not paid premiums for Cover Oregon health policies, placing coverage at risk

A large number of people who've signed up for private health insurers through the Cover Oregon health insurance exchange have not paid their first month's premiums, meaning they are at risk of going without coverage through November.  "I've already had clients not pay and lose their coverage," says Lisa Lettenmaier, who owns the health insurance brokerage Health Source NW in Tigard. "It's imperative for people to pay their premiums on time."

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Oregon to abandon 'Cover Oregon' exchange

According to health watch writer Elise Viebeck at The Hill, Oregon is set to become the first state to drop its ObamaCare exchange and transition into the system managed by the federal government. ✧ The decision follows months of severe technical issues that have made Oregon's marketplace one of the worst in the country. ✧ "Cover Oregon" is the only ObamaCare enrollment system that won't let registrants buy coverage and qualify for tax credits in one sitting. It remains mired in glitches almost seven months after a rocky launch.

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Malkin: The Inevitability of Obamacare for Illegal Aliens

You knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. When government expands entitlements, illegal aliens always end up with a piece of the pie. Obamacare promoters relented to GOP pressure to include an illegal alien ban on eligibility and vowed endlessly that no benefits would go to the "undocumented." But denial isn't just a river in Egypt. It's the Obama way. ✧ In Oregon this week, officials confessed that nearly 4,000 illegal immigrants had been "accidentally" steered from the state's low-income Medicaid program and instead were enrolled in Obamacare in violation of the law. Oopsie. The Oregonian newspaper's Nick Budnick reported that the health bureaucrats "discovered the problem several weeks ago and are correcting it." Get in line. The beleaguered Cover Oregon health insurance exchange has been riddled with ongoing problems, errors and glitches since last October that have yet to be fixed.

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House Democrats kill GOP Cover Oregon reform bid

(Sorry! I'm a little late with this) - SALEM, OR: On a party-line vote Wednesday, [February 12th], Oregon House Democrats on the Health Care Committee killed a series of amendments that Republicans said would reform Cover Oregon and improve oversight. Read more at KTVZ.com Read More......

New Cover Oregon allegations: 'If it's true, someone's going to prison'

You already know the process that led to the failed rollout of the Cover Oregon website was bad. ✧ But was it criminally bad?

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