Kitzhaber on March 20 announced he'd accepted the resignation of his top healthcare administrator, Bruce Goldberg, and also urged the appointed board of Cover Oregon to remove Karjala as well as Triz delaRosa, the exchange's chief operating officer.
Oregon's exchange remains the only one in the country that does not let the public self-enroll for health coverage in a single-sitting, despite more than $200 million spent so far. State officials are now considering whether to put the project on a shelf and instead use the federal exchange for the next enrollment period starting this November.
