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Friday, December 13, 2013

Taxpayers Shell Out $14,000 Per Obamacare “Enrollee”

$5.2 billion for just 364,682 “enrollees”

In her testimony before Congress today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provided an updated dollar amount for the cost of HealthCare.gov: $677 million. In addition to the $677 million spent on the federal Obamacare website, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has shoveled $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to promote Obamacare on the state level.

HHS also released updated “enrollment” figures for Obamacare. According to the agency 364,682 people have “selected a plan” – the equivalent of putting an item in your online shopping cart and leaving it there.

That means the taxpayer cost per “enrollee” is over $14,000.

($4.5 billion + $677 million = $5,177,000,000 ÷ 364,682 = $14,196)

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

And we create layer upon layer of bureaucracy, filled with people who will claim total disability based on too much keyboarding or falling off a chair, all of whom will suck at the drying up last teat of the middle class udder.

Anonymous said...

We are so screwed.

Anonymous said...

Instead of Stalin's wholesale murder of the people, Obee uses our economy to do away with us.

Anonymous said...

Redistribution of wealth. Enabling fat slob, non working bums.

Anonymous said...

This is a sad country we live in. Working, tax paying citizens are the minority and carry the biggest load.

Anonymous said...

Just think, we're all pying for that 300 pound sweaty that rides in the cart at Walmart