$24,000 per enrollee! Wow. That is truly astonishing. Many people’s total health-related expenditures for a year are well under that (mine certainly are)! What insanity.
You would be hard pressed to find anyone with health related expenditures that high, unless they were terminally ill. The population of Hawaii are not terminally ill.
Not only is ObamaCare premiums ridiculously expensive without subsidies, but co-pay on important specialty drugs are double than what is through employers. More limits to prescription drugs.
“The total cost to implement Obamacare in Massachusetts surpassed a half-billion dollars yesterday, as the Health Connector board agreed to seek an additional $121 million in federal funds to try to rescue the money-hemorrhaging health exchange.”
So this means that they decided not to join the federal exchange, but to pour more money into their state exchange. What a good use of taxpayer money.
Well, looking at the data from personal income per capita, it looks as though Hawaii is one of the more well-off states (probably from all of the tourism). So, it probably isn’t too surprising that the exchange is so high! However, in the end, this still does not leave its citizens with enough disposable income to likely live comfortably. So yes, this is a headline I wish I hadn’t seen.
$24,000 per enrollee! Wow. That is truly astonishing. Many people’s total health-related expenditures for a year are well under that (mine certainly are)! What insanity.
You would be hard pressed to find anyone with health related expenditures that high, unless they were terminally ill. The population of Hawaii are not terminally ill.
You would think they are with all of their retirees
Not only is ObamaCare premiums ridiculously expensive without subsidies, but co-pay on important specialty drugs are double than what is through employers. More limits to prescription drugs.
Even more proof (as if we needed anymore) on the unaffordability of ObamaCare. Please let reforms be implemented soon!
“The total cost to implement Obamacare in Massachusetts surpassed a half-billion dollars yesterday, as the Health Connector board agreed to seek an additional $121 million in federal funds to try to rescue the money-hemorrhaging health exchange.”
So this means that they decided not to join the federal exchange, but to pour more money into their state exchange. What a good use of taxpayer money.
“For taxpayers, Obamacare in Massachusetts has been a more-than-half-billion-dollar blunder”
Not just a state blunder, but a national blunder.
“Hawaii’s ObamaCare exchange cost nearly $24,000 per enrollee.”
Speaking of state and national blunders…
It cost 200% above the individual federal poverty limit for each enrollee. Think about that.
There’s no way there is enough people who make that much money in Hawaii
Well, looking at the data from personal income per capita, it looks as though Hawaii is one of the more well-off states (probably from all of the tourism). So, it probably isn’t too surprising that the exchange is so high! However, in the end, this still does not leave its citizens with enough disposable income to likely live comfortably. So yes, this is a headline I wish I hadn’t seen.
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