Cover Oregon Flirting with Other IT Contractors, State Health Tech Chief Resigns

By Sterling Beard December 20, 2013

Oregon’s Obamacare exchange, which still doesn’t have a functioning website, has run into even more problems. The work done by Oracle, the contractor selected to build the exchange’s website, has been so ...

Michigan AFL-CIO President Plagiarizes Anti-ALEC Op-Ed from Left-Wing Group’s Materials

By Sterling Beard December 19, 2013

Michigan AFL-CIO president Karla Swift heavily plagiarized her recent op-ed against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), lifting entire paragraphs from a “toolkit” created and distributed by the Center for Media and Democracy, ...

Illinois Urging Thousands to Reapply for Insurance if They Think They Were Wrongly Sent to Medicaid

By Sterling Beard December 19, 2013

Illinois officials are contacting thousands of Prairie State residents to urge them to redo their health-insurance applications if they think HealthCare.gov incorrectly sent them to Medicaid. Over 30,000 Illinois residents who applied ...

Covered California Botched Over 100,000 Eligibility Notices

By Sterling Beard December 19, 2013

Covered California, the Golden State’s Obamacare exchange, botched over 100,000 eligibility notices thanks to a computer error. From November 22 to December 7, the exchange mailed 113,847 households to inform people that they ...

MNsure Chief Resigns after Coming Under Fire for Two-Week Vacation to Costa Rica

By Sterling Beard December 18, 2013

The executive director of Minnesota’s state-run health-care exchange has resigned after coming under fire for taking a vacation even as the exchange worked to double-check up to 40,000 applications and faced glitches ...

Obamacare Cuts to Cost Two Virginia Medical Centers $500 million in Federal Funds

By Sterling Beard December 18, 2013

Two Virginia medical centers are set to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to care for the uninsured under cuts from Obamacare. University of Virginia Medical Center and ...

At Least Three Insurers Saw Plans Disappear from HealthCare.gov Last Week

By Sterling Beard December 18, 2013

At least three Wisconsin insurers saw their plans disappear from the federal health exchange last week. On December 11, plans offered by WPS Health Insurance, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, ...

MNsure to Ask 1,000 to Reapply for Obamacare Subsidies

By Sterling Beard December 18, 2013

Minnesota’s health-care exchange is asking about 1,000 applicants to reapply so they can receive insurance premium subsidies. MNsure had issues computing those subsidies earlier; the problem only applies to those who ...

The Best Pajama Boy Zinger Yet

By Sterling Beard December 18, 2013

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Server for Md. Health-Care Exchange Taken Down after Gov. O’Malley Declares Site ‘Functional for Most Citizens’

By Sterling Beard December 17, 2013

Oregon isn’t the only state still having problems with its health-care exchange website; Maryland’s site went down Monday despite a previous declaration from Governor Martin O’Malley (D) that it was ...