Obamacare and Oregon

Two weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments against President Obama’s health care law, Democrat Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber approved the business plan for the Oregon health insurance exchange, making a political gamble the law will survive its day in court. Kitzhaber’s challenge indicates the risk facing governors across the country. Although he remains publicly committed to implementation of Obama’s law, his administration runs the risk of unnecessarily spending millions of taxpayer dollars and…