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80,000 Cover Oregon Customers Will Have To Re-Enroll

People who enrolled in Oregon's troubled health insurance exchange will have to re-enroll for coverage, as Cover Oregon transitions to the federal government.

Tina Edlund of the Cover Oregon Transition Project told the Oregon Health Policy Board Tuesday that come November, about 80,000 Oregonians will have to log on to to get their insurance.

"No matter what, people were going to have to go back. Even if they'd just stayed with Cover Oregon, they were going to have to go back and update information," said Edlund.

"You know, changes in your family, changes in your income. All of that and just like all of us have to go with our employer sponsored insurance and make up dates on an annual basis. Some of this was going to have to happen anyway."

Edlund says her main goal is for Oregonians to have a working website in which to enroll starting November 15.

About 422,000 Oregonians enrolled in new health care this year -- that ranked the state 7 out of the 15 states that launched their own websites.

The Cover Oregon website never worked as it was meant to, and the board decided in April to move to the federal government site.

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