Thursday, June 26, 2014

Oregon Obamacare Employees Now Getting Cushy Bonuses

Oregon Obamacare Employees Now Getting Cushy Bonuses | The Daily Caller:
Now that Oregon’s Obamacare exchange has entirely given up on fixing or running its own Obamacare website, the state exchange is handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funding as bonuses to employees that stick around until the federal government takes over.
...Thirty-eight employees will be awarded bonuses worth one to three months pay to convince them to stay on with the exchange through the next nine months. 
All remaining 163 employees will be eligible for a bonus worth two weeks of government pay if they remain at the exchange through March 15.
...Hamstreet expects the bonuses to cost another $650,000 of federal taxpayer funding.
....The state-run exchange was awarded $305 million of federal taxpayer funding to create its state-run exchange, which it abandoned in April, and has so far spent over $250 million.
The exchange never launched a functional website which was able to enroll customers online, a problem which the state blames on its contractor Oracle.

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