{"id":22825,"date":"2015-05-14T07:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22825"},"modified":"2015-05-14T07:18:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:18:40","slug":"hawaiis-obamacare-exchange-out-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22825\/hawaiis-obamacare-exchange-out-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii&#8217;s ObamaCare Exchange Out of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add Hawaii to the growing list of states that can\u2019t afford to continue funding their financially unsustainable ObamaCare exchange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state\u2019s exchange is drowning in their own debt and is set to shut down by September 30,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/uncoverobamacare.com\/hawaii-obamacare-exchange-wipes-out-set-to-close\/ \" target=\"_blank\">writes Kristina Ribali<\/a> of the Foundation for Government Accountability. \u201cAdministrators had been hoping to get a funding boost from state lawmakers, during their current legislative session, but that will not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii\u2019s death spiral became clear in January when the federal government notified the state that it was out of compliance with ObamaCare\u2019s performance benchmarks. By this year state exchanges have to prove their long term financial viability, and their IT systems must be integrated with the Medicaid database. The latter requirement ensures that applicants are correctly channeled to the appropriate government assistance program.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii \u2013 like Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont \u2013 isn\u2019t generating enough revenue in enrollment fees to make its exchange solvent. Its failure to integrate IT systems is likely the final blow before the state hands over its exchange function to Healthcare.gov, the federal counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>Like the other states just mentioned, Hawaii\u2019s ObamaCare exchange failure has been expensive: $204.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>And counting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Hawaii to the growing list of states that can\u2019t afford to continue funding their financially unsustainable ObamaCare exchange. \u201cThe state\u2019s exchange is drowning in their own debt and is set to shut down by September 30,\u201d writes Kristina Ribali of the Foundation for Government Accountability. \u201cAdministrators had been hoping to get a funding boost [&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":[3007,1082,4340,1829,35],"class_list":["post-22825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-hawaii","tag-healthcare-gov","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22825","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=22825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22829,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22825\/revisions\/22829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}