May 21st, 2014 1:55 pm
Nevada Closes Its ObamaCare Exchange, Hawaii Next?
Fed up with a dysfunctional health exchange operated by Xerox, Nevada officials voted to terminate the contract and transfer responsibility to the federal government.
Apparently, spending $75 million to enroll about one-fourth the number of people initially projected convinced Nevada to throw in the towel.
Nevada joins Oregon, Maryland and Massachusetts as states who have scrapped their original state-based exchanges because of exceedingly poor performance.
The next domino to fall may be Hawaii, whose ObamaCare exchange – the Hawaii Health Connector – has registered just 8,500 people but needs at least 150,000 enrollees to ensure the program is self-sustaining.
Not surprisingly, Hawaiian officials are already being pressured to shut it down.
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