Obama’s Home State To Shut Down State-Based Obamacare Exchange Over Lack of Funds

cns news ^ | 5/12/15 | Brittany M. Hughes

[Nachum]

(CNSNews.com) -- President Barack Obama’s home state of Hawaii is shutting down its state-based health care exchange, the Hawaii Health Connector (HHC), due to incurring debts and the unwillingness of state legislators to put more taxpayer money into the struggling operation, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Saturday.

Established in 2011, the non-profit organization is Hawaii’s state-based health exchange for the President’s Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. There are currently about 37,000 Hawaiians enrolled in health care plans through the exchange, far short of the roughly 70,000 needed to raise enough money to sustain it, the article reports.

Officials with the exchange released a report to its board of directors on Friday declaring that the state-based marketplace simply does not have the money to continue operations, the article stated.

"Now that it is clear that the state will not provide sufficient support for the Hawaii Health Connector's operations through fiscal year 2016 (ending June 30, 2016), the Connector can no longer operate in a manner that would cause it to incur additional debts or other obligations for which it is unable to pay," the report read, according to the article.

[Nachum]

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[Patriot Babe]

What a bummer. Even at the Usurper’s supposedly birthplace.

[Jim Robinson]

Home state? They have ObamaCare in Kenya?

[kingu]

Translation: We've already blown through our advertising budget, and we have hundreds of health navigators to pay for, not to mention that our slush fund for personal benefits is getting kind of lean, and the board of directors wants a pay raise, as they've been working at the job for just under two years and need more pay. And gosh, we can't afford to go to any more conferences with full catering and first class travel!

What I'd rather see is a break down, state by state, for the overhead costs for new enrollees and continuing enrollees by dividing the annual budget by numbers enrolled. Betcha it'd be SHOCKING.

[circlecity]

If the USSC upholds the Federal exchange you will see lots and lots of states doing this over the next couple of years.

[MrB]

Beat me to it...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Ho’omaika’i ‘ana Gruber.

[Mamzelle]

How is Care Oregon doing?

[TexasCajun]

No Worries, Republicans will allow subsidies from the federal website despite being illegal.

[fish hawk]

as a resident of Hawaii, I am offended at this state being labeled Obama’s home state. Illinois MUST be his home state thus he picked it for his LIEBARRY. ( and that does make me happy)

[TigersEye]

RPEAL 0BAMACARE!

[Noamie]

Which “home state”?

[Eva]

WA State Obamacare in trouble, also. So is Massachusetts.

[Political Junkie Too]

Oregon shut down their state exchange in April 2014 after their $250 million site wouldn't work and they failed to enroll a single person.

-PJ

[rfreedom4u]

Just because someone is born somewhere does not make it their “home” state/country. I was born in Germany but my home is Texas!

Barry’s home state is Illinois. State of corruption!

[Gritty]

Not to worry. The feckless Stupid Party will fund it.

[steve86]

WA State Obamacare in trouble, also.

Not immediately evident to me based on yesterday's Seattle Times story. If you mean the Obamacare Exchange is short of funding, I guess that could be true.

Lower rate increases, more plans proposed for state health exchange in 2016