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Cover Oregon was the health insurance marketplace for the U.S. state of Oregon, established as Oregon's implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Cover Oregon was intended to enable Oregonians and small businesses to purchase health insurance at federally subsidized rates. While the intent was to allow registration and selection of coverage via a website, the site has been plagued with problems and it was only possible to purchase insurance via paper registration.〔 As of January 2014, almost $200 million of the $300 million allocated to develop and operate the Cover Oregon website had been spent.〔(Colossal cost of Cover Oregon prompts lawmaker to call for end to spending ) by Chelsa Kopta Jan 20, 2014 KATU〕 As a result of the ongoing problems, in April 2014, the board of directors voted to close the state-run exchange and adopt the Federal HealthCare.gov exchange beginning in 2015. The FBI began investigating the failed development of the website in March 2014. In March 2015, the state officially abolished Cover Oregon, permanently folding its functions into an existing state agency and the federal HealthCare.gov website. ==Background== Health insurance exchanges were established as a part of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to enable individuals to purchase health insurance in state-run marketplaces. In this legislation, states could choose to establish their own health insurance exchanges; if they choose not to do so, the federal government would run one for the state.〔 In 2011, the Oregon Legislative Assembly passed Senate Bill 99, establishing Oregon's own exchange.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Senate Bill 99: Establishes Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Corporation as public corporation to be governed by board of directors and supervised by executive director )〕 Rocky King was named executive director of the exchange in late 2011, and on October 1, 2012, the exchange was named ''Cover Oregon''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cover Oregon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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