The federal government has determined that the Obamacare insurance exchange in Oregon - Cover Oregon - is so dysfunctional that it is beyond salvage. After spending more than $350 million in federal dollars, not a single Oregonian has been able to sign up via the website. The feds will take over the exchange in the near future. In addition, 4 other malfunctioning exchanges in Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Minnesota may also be folded into the federal marketplace. Washington Post: In public, the board overseeing Cover Oregon is scheduled to vote Friday whether to join the federal insurance marketplace that sells health plans in most of the country under the Affordable Care Act. Behind the scenes, the officials say, federal and Oregon officials already have agreed that closing down the state marketplace is the best path to rescue what has been the country’s only one to fail so spectacularly that no resident has been able to sign up for coverage online since it...(Read Full Post)