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Oracle Reportedly Messed Up Oregon’s $40M Healthcare Exchange

By TechTaffy Desk

cover_oregonOregon gave Oracle $40 million to build its own online healthcare exchange; but the result has been “a disaster of missed deadlines, a nonworking website and a state forced to process thousands of insurance applications on paper.”

According to a report by Steve Henn of NPR, the site does not work, and does not look like it will be running anytime soon.

[Image courtesy: Cover Oregon]

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