{"id":20940,"date":"2014-06-24T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T22:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20940"},"modified":"2014-06-24T18:42:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T22:42:19","slug":"oregon-v-oracle-obamacare-brawl-heating-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20940\/oregon-v-oracle-obamacare-brawl-heating-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon v. Oracle ObamaCare Brawl Heating Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a nasty fight<\/a> brewing between Oregon\u2019s governor and Oracle, the software company the state hired to create its doomed ObamaCare website.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year Cover Oregon, the state board that contracted with Oracle, decided to scuttle the project after spending upwards of $300 million for a website that failed to enroll a single person.<\/p>\n

When Oregon nixed the deal in April, Democratic Governor John Kitzhaber blamed the entire fiasco on Oracle, suggesting the state should consider suing the company<\/a> to recover its losses.<\/p>\n

But at a House Energy and Commerce hearing last week in Washington, D.C., Oracle hit back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe website was operational in February,\u201d Oracle said, but \u201cthe state of Oregon pulled the plug on it for political reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company had previously written to state officials that \u201cCover Oregon executives have stated to Oracle that application functionality is sufficient to support individual enrollment. However, Cover Oregon has not agreed to give individuals direct access to the application. Thus Cover Oregon, not Oracle, made the decision to keep the exchange closed to individuals even though the functionality has been delivered by Oracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kitzhaber may face a surprisingly difficult reelection campaign due to the spectacular failure of Cover Oregon. The governor embraced ObamaCare early, so any negative fallout from the law\u2019s poor local performance could sink him.<\/p>\n

To be fair, though, Oracle isn\u2019t totally without blame. Saying that the website was functional in February when the enrollment period began in October \u2013 and ended in March \u2013 is hardly prompt performance. Does anyone seriously think that one of Oracle\u2019s private sector clients wouldn\u2019t be threatening legal action under the same circumstances?<\/p>\n

Whatever the outcome of the ongoing investigation, Oregon\u2019s ObamaCare debacle is sure to cost taxpayers even more money as lawyers, tech consultants and political strategists get their part of a never-ending spending spree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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