Oregon Exchange Consumers Must Use Agents Initially

[Yagents]

Oregon Exchange consumers must use agents initially
And.......they are out of money

Cover Oregon to fully launch health insurance marketplace later than expected | OregonLive.com

 

[NWBenefitProvider]

Thanks for the link. Interesting to see how this plays out....

 

[RayNY]

Correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't Oregon the one that said everything was going to plan and they designed their system to be robust enough to handle everyone in America logging on simultaneously?

Obamacare 1.0: States brace for Web barrage when reform goes live | Reuters.com

"Aaron Karjala is confident the state's new online insurance exchange will be able to accommodate them when enrollment under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform begins on October 1....I had no choice but to be extremely conservative" in estimates of how many simultaneous users Cover Oregon has to be prepared for, Karjala said. "Building capacity is the only way to avoid the spinning hourglass or the site freezing, so in our performance testing we're seeing what happens if the whole U.S. population came to Cover Oregon to check it out."

This was 2 short months ago, Jul 2.