Republicans 'Finally' open investigations into ObamaCare’s disaster sites.

Republicans 'Finally' open investigations into ObamaCare’s disaster sites.HT: TheHill.

Republicans are launching investigations into three state-run ObamaCare exchanges that are failing disastrously.

Lawmakers are setting their sites on exchanges in Oregon, Maryland and Massachusetts where Democratic governors embraced the healthcare law, and are demanding to know why their expensive online portals remain useless more than four months after launch.

On Wednesday, four Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of the $304 million in federal grants that Oregon received to build its broken website. “The catastrophic breakdown of Cover Oregon is unacceptable, and taxpayers deserve accountability,” wrote the group of lawmakers led by Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.).

The scrutiny of the state enrollment portals is a shift from October, when the federal site HealthCare.Gov was out of service but state-run exchanges in California, New York and even red Kentucky appeared to be humming along.

But several states are having major problems with their ObamaCare sites.

In Oregon, not even one person has yet to enroll online, leaving the state completely reliant on paper applications.

The website problems run deeper in Maryland, where state officials have been debating for months whether to abandon its faltering state-run exchange in favor of HealthCare.gov.

And Massachusetts, which was once the model for state-run healthcare exchanges, presently has the worst enrollment percentage in the country, having signed-up only 8,100, or 17 percent, of its expected total for 2014, according to Avalere.

An official at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services told The Hill on Friday that the agency has extended a three-month waiver forMassachusetts that would allow it to continue enrolling those that had coverage from the previous exchange and are transferring to a new Connector plan.

Following the example of Democratic lawmakers in Washington, state officials in Oregon, Maryland and Massachusetts are standing behind the healthcare law in concept, but are lashing out about the rollout.

“No one is angrier than I am about the issues with CoverOregon,” Kitzhaber said. “No one wants to get to the bottom of this more than I do. We do already have new CoverOregon leadership in place. And I won't hesitate to take further action to make this right. That's why I called in First Data to do an independent review of what went wrong and how.”Read the full story here.