my doctor and health care.

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29. Oregon seems to have figured it out. They enrolled 50,000 people into Medicaid while the

exchange site was not working, with just a phone call or the return of a card.

Though Oregon's health insurance exchange is not yet up and running, the number of uninsured is already dropping thanks to new fast-track enrollment for the Oregon Health Plan.

The low-income, Medicaid-funded program has already signed up 56,000 new people, cutting the state's number of uninsured by 10 percent, according to Oregon Health Authority officials.

Though the new exchange called Cover Oregon was originally intended to be used for Oregon Health Plan enrollment, the online marketplace doesn't work yet. Instead, new Oregon Health Plan members are being enrolled using a fast-track process that was approved by the federal government in August.
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To enroll, all they have to do is make a phone call or send a form consenting to be enrolled. So far, 56,000 people have done that, coming on top of more than 600,000 already enrolled.
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http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/10/oregon_has_cut_tally_of_those.html#incart_river

WA state has enrolled about 35,000 in Medicaid, about 4500 in marketplace.

Medicaid enrollment is much faster and easier than ACA, works much better. All it needs is people that will stand up and fight for it like they fight for donations from wealthy people.