Oregon Panel Recommends State Drop Troubled Health Exchange, Move To Federal System

BY GOSIA WOZNIACKA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An advisory panel has recommended that Oregon drop its trouble-plagued online health exchange for private policies and have Oregonians shop for them instead on the federal online marketplace. A top Cover Oregon official, Alex Pettit, said Thursday that fixing the existing system would be too costly at $78 million, would take too long, and would be too risky. He says switching to the federal system would cost $4 million to $6 million...