Another gross misuse of taxpayer dollars.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) – The On Your Side Investigators revealed the colossal cost of Cover Oregon for the first time Monday and it shows how much of your tax money has been spent on the failed website.

KATU learned Cover Oregon and the Oregon Health Authority collectively spent just shy of $200 million on its Cover Oregon website, which has been plagued with problems for months and still hasn’t enrolled a single Oregonian for health insurance since the site launched Oct. 1, 2013.

The state health insurance exchange’s top dogs have been back and forth for months, extending the date when the website likely could be fixed. As of last week, Cover Oregon’s interim director, Bruce Goldberg, said there’s no specific deadline for when the website will be fully operational.

Lawmakers, like Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend, are growing impatient.

Conger sits on the House Interim Committee on Health Care and last week grilled Goldberg about Cover Oregon – a project he referred to as a “train wreck.” In the hearing, Conger also asked Goldberg for a breakdown of taxpayer dollars spent on Cover Oregon to date.

Once Goldberg collected the numbers for Conger, he sent them to him in an email. Conger then shared Cover Oregon’s whopping $200 million price tag exclusively with the On Your Side Investigators Monday.

“It’s an enormous amount of money expended over a couple of years to build a website that doesn’t work,” Conger told KATU in a Skype interview Monday. “It doesn’t make sense to throw good money after bad and just waste that money on something that us ultimately, maybe doomed to fail.”

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