If you think Healthcare.gov had problems

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So it’s equally disappointing — while none too surprising — that we find a few states whose struggles with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act rival that of the federal government.

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Take Oregon, for example. A state that jumped at the chance to run its own exchange, and happily cashed federal grant checks for more than $300 million to build its enrollment web site. A web site that, to date, has yet to enroll a single resident. Everyone there has has to fill out paper forms, almost certainly driving up its costs even further.

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It’s gotten so bad that Republican lawmakers at the federal level want some of its money back, especially if the state decides to scrap its web site and joint HealthCare.gov. The Hill is reporting “four Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting a review of the $304 million in federal grants that Oregon received to build its broken website.”

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Things aren’t much better in Maryland, where the state exchange is seriously behind on its enrollment goal. They’re not even halfway to their 76,000 target number. And, yes, more lawmakers want that state investigated as well, where they wrote in a letter to Health and Human Services, “By the end of the year, over $100 million federal dollars will have been spent on a project that should have cost much less, and doesn’t work.”

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