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Oregon may shutter its state exchange

Oregons health insurance exchange, plagued by computer flaws after federal taxpayers spent $303 million to build it, may be closed and the states customers shifted to the federal marketplace.

By Alex Wayne | Updated on April 24, 2014
Cover Oregon interim chief information officer Alex Pettit speaks during an advisory committee meeting in Portland, Ore., Thursday, April 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

April 24 (Bloomberg) — Oregon’s health insurance exchange, plagued by computer flaws after federal taxpayers spent $303 million to build it, may be closed and the state’s customers shifted to the federal marketplace.

Directors for the exchange, Cover Oregon, are scheduled to meet tomorrow to consider a recommendation that the state join the federal exchange, healthcare.gov. Cover Oregon’s website never recovered from its technology woes, forcing tens of thousands of Oregon residents to apply for health plans using paper applications.

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