{"id":20750,"date":"2014-05-21T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20750"},"modified":"2014-05-21T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:55:57","slug":"nevada-closes-its-obamacare-exchange-hawaii-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20750\/nevada-closes-its-obamacare-exchange-hawaii-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Closes Its ObamaCare Exchange, Hawaii Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with a dysfunctional health exchange operated by Xerox, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/attention-shifts-to-troubled-obamacare-state-based-exchanges\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Nevada officials voted to terminate<\/a> the contract and transfer responsibility to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, spending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/05\/nevada-end-obamacare-exchange-healthcare-brian-sandoval-106897.html \" target=\"_blank\">$75 million to enroll about one-fourth the number of people initially projected<\/a> convinced Nevada to throw in the towel.<\/p>\n<p>Nevada joins Oregon, Maryland and Massachusetts as states who have scrapped their original state-based exchanges because of exceedingly poor performance.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/15\/hawaiis-obamacare-exchange-most-costly-in-nation\/ \" target=\"_blank\">next domino to fall may be Hawaii<\/a>, whose ObamaCare exchange \u2013 the Hawaii Health Connector \u2013 has registered just 8,500 people but needs at least 150,000 enrollees to ensure the program is self-sustaining.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Hawaiian officials are already being <a href=\"http:\/\/khon2.com\/2014\/05\/09\/hmsa-ceo-shut-down-hawaii-health-connector\/ \" target=\"_blank\">pressured to shut it down<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3007,1082,3308,1829,1551,35,772],"class_list":["post-20750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-hawaii","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-nevada","tag-obamacare","tag-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20750"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20756,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20750\/revisions\/20756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}