Posted on 02/14/2014 11:15:14 AM PST by NormsRevenge
How much does it cost taxpayers to sign up one ObamaCare enrollee? In President Obama's home state of Hawaii, it's $56,819.
The Obama administration gave Hawaii $205 million in grants over the past three years to set up its state-run exchange. But so far, only 3,614 Hawaiians have filled out applications — just 40% of the state's enrollment goal.
Even if Hawaii were to reach its 9,000 target, it would still cost nearly $23,000 for each enrollee.
Hawaii's low sign-up numbers have state officials scrambling to figure out what to do next year, when its exchange is supposed to rely on excise taxes charged to insurers selling through the Hawaii Health Connector.
Washington, D.C., meanwhile, received $133.6 million in federal grants to build its exchange, but so far has signed up just 5,090 — for a per-enrollee cost of $26,242.
Ironically, the city where Obama signed ObamaCare into law is just 12% toward its enrollment goal, the second worst rate in the country.
Next in line is Massachusetts, which actually had a functioning exchange website, built as part of its 2006 reform law that served as the model for ObamaCare. But the site had to be rebuilt to suit the health reform law.
After $180 million in grants, however, Massachusetts has enrolled only 8,139 in its new exchange — or $22,124 per enrollee. It had expected 250,000 people to buy an ObamaCare plan in the first year.
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but.. Surf's Up!
Time for Obama to go on vacation.
FRom yesterday..
Congressmen want probe of Oregon’s Obamacare exchange
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101415808
An Oregon congressman and other legislators on Thursday called for a federal probe of Oregon’s deeply troubled Obamacare health insurance exchange, which has been unable to enroll anyone online despite receiving $305 million in federal grants.
“The catastrophic breakdown of Cover Oregon is unacceptable and taxpayers deserve accountability,” U.S. Rep Greg Walden, R-Ore., and other leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote in a letter to the General Accountability Office, naming Oregon’s health exchange.
The request for the GAO probe—which Walden’s spokesman said is “likely” given that GAO staff worked with the congressmen on the wording of the letter—is believed to be the first time legislators have asked for a federal investigation of an Obamacare exchange run by an individual state, the spokesman said.
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It would have been a hell of a lot cheaper to keep the old system and let the gubmint pay for the health insurance polices of everybody with a preexisting conditions.
$205 million spent to try to sign up 9,000? That’s more than $22,000 each, even if they had met their goal, and is more than double the cost of most POLICIES, and this is just to sign them up! Yeah, Obamacare sure is cutting costs!
Now with Boehner and McConnell’s stamp of budget approval, Obama can afford to spend even a million dollars per signee.
Why the hell would Obama now concern himself with cost?
That’s at least 8 years worth of insurance premiums even at Obamacare rates.
I am willing to bet the farm that actual nationwide sign-ups are less than 450,000.
The gopE-idiots believe they can win on obamacare. I doubt it. Varney got his ass handed to him by Cavuto yesterday over this game plan of the gopE. All eggs in one basket and counting on “moderate” and liberal voters to be pissed off enough about obamacare to vote for them.
Don't forget, most of them are signing up for a free ride and they still won't bother.
Thank goodness Putin intimidated him or we’d be seeing MooseChelle, Malaria, Sharia, and Baraq at every Sochi venue.
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