Federal Taxpayer Cost Per "Pre-Effectuated" and Paid Enrollee

We've also seen very little analysis of how much federal taxpayers have been forced to pay to build and market the new Obamacare exchanges. Those costs have now totaled $6.9 billion ($4.9 billion in grants to states and $2 billion for the federal Healthcare.gov). And that's not including an additional $1.4 billion HHS anticipates spending on Healthcare.gov in fiscal 2014.
Some of the states are performing absolutely miserably on a cost basis, such as Hawaii, which has spent over $44,000 of federal taxpayer money per "person who selected a plan," the District of Columbia, which has spent over $27,000 of federal taxpayer money per paid enrollee. All of the state exchanges are more costly to taxpayers than the much-maligned federal healthcare.gov.
The chart below was compiled from three sources: total federal grants to state exchanges based on CMS data compiled by Americans for Tax Reform, the latest HHS enrollment report, and a compilation of payment rate data from state exchanges compiled by CNBC. Where the state-reported "selected a plan" number reported by CNBC differed from the HHS report, the former was used.
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Until better data is reported by the federal exchange, it is reasonable to reduce the official reported numbers by 20 percent to estimate paid enrollment -- and it is necessaryvvvv to do so to track progress toward the original goal of seven million enrollees, which was a target for paid enrollment, not "pre-effectuated" or shopping cart enrollment.
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Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment He is on Twitter and on Facebook. Kerpen is the author of Democracy Denied: How Obama is Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America – and How to Stop Him< and is a contributing author for the ARRA News Service.
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