Insurance Exchange Cloud Darkens

It’s not terribly shocking that the Ottercare insurance exchange board voted to keep secret the results of an investigation into the now-nixed sweetheart deal for a former exchange board member. Not shocking, but still wrong. The exchange hired an attorney to do the investigation, so now the attorney’s report is being held confidential as a matter of attorney-client privilege. How clever. If you want to keep your dirty laundry from being aired, just hire an attorney to do the investigating. A subset of this decision is, of course, a question of whether an employee, Ottercare Executive Director Amy Dowd, erred in making the $375,000 contract available to Frank Chan. One might argue that Dowd’s decisions, good or bad, deserve a level of confidentiality. Perhaps. And perhaps not/ Wayne Hoffman , Idaho Freedom Foundation. More here .

Question: Sounds like the insurance exchange people gave Wayne & IFF another stick to beat them with. Thoughts?