
Cover Oregon
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Search complete. 5 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Cover Oregon".
Oct 19, 2026
Fighting for Cummings Elementary, School Safety in Bend & Unrest in France – Newsmakers At Noon 10/19/26
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31:56Angela PlowheadGUEST
How are they going to run an entire health care
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31:58Denise QuinnHOST
system? Well, I just look at what happened with Cover Oregon back in 2013.
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32:00Denise QuinnHOST
I mean, right out of the gate, that was a fail boat.
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32:04Denise QuinnHOST
Right.
Columbus Day, Rising Health Insurance Costs & What Oregonians Need to Know – Newsmakers At Noon 10/12/26
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3:37Don Miller KayGUEST
If you live in Marion and Polk County, you are going to have the options of Regents or Kaiser.
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3:42TJ SullivanGUEST
Which is really weird that after we spent $300 million on Cover Oregon, which never worked.
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3:50TJ SullivanGUEST
Nope.
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3:51TJ SullivanGUEST
Then they decided, I mean, healthcare.gov was basically the backup option.
25 MINS LATER
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28:36Don Miller KayGUEST
So what can we share with them that they might find valuable that they didn't know about? So our role as a consultant has even changed from just spreadsheeting and saying doing this to you know, the information that we communicate all the way down to the employees.
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28:52Don Miller KayGUEST
And I think having
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28:53TJ SullivanGUEST
these two with lawmakers is really important because the first time Cover Oregon came around and we were involved with that process, they were saying to the agents, you know, you guys are part of the insurance industry.
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29:10TJ SullivanGUEST
We can't trust what you have to say.